Nights into Dreams

 Nights into Dreams  is a 2017 action-adventure comedy fantasy film based off the 1996 Nights into Dreams video game published by Sega and developed by Sonic Team. Being the tenth film in the Sega Cinematic Universe and the first film of the Chapter 2 era of the SCU, the film was directed and written by Guillermo del Toro, who had directed Sonic the Hedgehog Chaos (2013) and produced by Gary Janetti, who was a former crew member on the adult animated sitcom Family Guy and executive produced by iconic film duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who had directed the previous film in the franchise Sega Superstars (2016), and Yuji Naka. The film stars Christina Ricci as Nights, an exiled outcasted Nightmaren who teams up with two 15-year old high schoolers named Claris Sinclair and Elliot Edwards to stop the evil ruler Wizeman from destroying her land Nightopia. Hugo Weaving stars as Wizeman while Jacob Bertrand and Millie Bobby Brown voice Elliot and Claris, respectively. The film was distributed by Sega and Paramount Pictures and produced by Sega's film production company Sega Movies and Paramount's animation division Paramount Animation as well as Blur Studio.

A Nights movie was announced in October 2000 to be in development at Warner Bros. Pictures with Warner Bros. Feature Animation set to produce and Steven Spielberg to direct and produce. However, due to Sega losing a lot of money from discontinuing the Dreamcast and shifting to third-party developers, it was ultimately cancelled. In 2012, in light of the success of the Sega Cinematic Universe (despite the box-office failure of A Spy Movie), a movie based on Nights into Dreams was greenlit by Paramount and Sega's executives. The title character Nights appeared in Sega Superstars first because Naoto Ohshima and Naka wanted audiences to be able to recongnize her. Guillermo del Toro was set on board to direct the movie in 2014 with Christina Ricci signing up for the role of Nights. Eventually, Hugo Weaving and Millie Bobby Brown were set on board to direct. Dean Smith composed the music for the film, as he did with Sonic the Hedgehog the Movie (2008) and Sonic the Hedgehog Chaos.