Based on the 2002 PS2 game story for Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, the first trailer for the feature length Sly Cooper movie has debuted. Set for release in 2016 with no firm date yet, the feature is a production between Blockade entertainment and Rainmaker Entertainment, the team that’s producing the 2015 Ratchet & Clank 3DCG film that Sony Pictures is distributing. This is the second feature in the planned attempt at bringing some of Sony’s various popular properties to the big screen, even if they haven’t had a game in a bit. Sly Cooper had its last game in early 2013 so it’s at least somewhat recent, but you can also expect there will be something else coming between then and when this feature is released.
Plot concept: Sly Cooper is a kinetic and comedic heist film that tells the story of Sly Cooper, an orphaned raccoon thief, along with his childhood friends and partners in crime, Bentley Turtle and Murray Hippo. In the film, Sly learns of his birth family’s secret legacy; that he comes from a long line of talented and international thieves. Endowed with this knowledge, Sly and his friends are catapulted into a global adventure as they race to reassemble pieces of an ancient book holding The Cooper Clan’s family secrets before it can fall into the hands of Clockwerk — an evil Russian metallic owl bent on ending the Cooper family line. From romantic Parisian backdrops to the lush mountains of China, gritty film noir meets bright, colorful graphic novels in this origin story of the world’s greatest thief-turned-hero.