Stories International, the Japanes company currently planning film adaptations for Shinobi, Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Virtua Fighter, The House of the Dead, Streets of Rage and Crazy Taxi have added another classic Sega game to their roster. The 1991 action game, Rent-A-Hero is currently in development by Stories International president Tomoya Suzuki, Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine) and Jeff Morris (The True Memoirs of an International Assassin).
Pink and Morris are currently working on the script, with Pink in line to direct. Deadline describes the film as, "a slacker genius who joins a high-tech start-up that is pitched as a company to improve people’s lives but is nothing as it seems. When company insiders plan to weaponize the technology, the slacker and his fellow Rent-a-Heroes must band together to stop them."
Rent-A-Hero was released in Japan in 1991. The game was never released in North America but came very close 2003 as an import was planned for Microsoft's X-box. However, distribution problems stalled the project. In 2008, this version of the game leaked onto the internet via torrent sites and developed a cult-following.