Crazy Taxi races to Netflix as 2027 film leads new Sega slate

Crazy Taxi is becoming a live-action comedy film for Netflix in 2027.

Netflix and Sega announced the project on 10 September 2026 as part of a new multi-title collaboration. The film is titled Crazy Taxi: World Tour, a direct adaptation of the driving game that debuted as an arcade game in 1999 Netflix.

Dan Gregor and Doug Mand are writing the screenplay. The pair wrote the 2025 reboot of The Naked Gun. Netflix said they will bring the game's chaotic, comedic spirit to the film.

Neal H. Moritz and Toby Ascher are producing alongside Toru Nakahara. Moritz and Ascher are producers behind the Sonic franchise. Nakahara is head producer at Sega and a producer of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. No director was attached at the time of the announcement, according to GameSpot.

For readers who missed it first time round, Crazy Taxi is built around breakneck city fares and stunt driving. The arcade original, a coin-operated cabinet made for short, high-score sessions, later reached home consoles and helped define Sega's late-1990s arcade catalogue.

The film is not a one-off. Netflix said the Sega slate spans live-action comedy, kids' animation and live-action crime.

The animation project is a new Sonic series aimed at an upper preschool audience. It is being developed with Carlos Stevens and Nakahara. Three seasons of Sonic Prime, the earlier animated series, are already available to stream on Netflix.

The third project is a live-action film based on Stranger Than Heaven. The game comes from RGG Studio, the team known for the Yakuza and Like a Dragon titles. It is set in early 20th-century Japan and follows a foreigner who rises from destitute stranger to feared yakuza to entertainment tycoon.

What makes this stand out is the range. One deal covers a full-throttle comedy, a preschool show and a period crime story. That mix reflects how Sega is licensing across ages and genres rather than betting on a single franchise.

The announcement named Shuji Utsumi, president and COO of Sega, and Brandon Riegg, vice-president of nonfiction and transmedia at Netflix, as executives behind the collaboration. Release plans beyond the 2027 date for Crazy Taxi: World Tour have not been detailed.