Under the deal with Sony's Columbia Pictures for Final Fantasy, Square picked up production costs for the movie while Columbia will distribute the film in North America and pay marketing costs.
Sakaguchi said that when a Hollywood director makes a movie based on a video game, gamers can sense a difference in the big screen version because the creative views of the movie director are different from those of the game creator.
As the creator of video game Final Fantasy and the director of the film, Sakaguchi is hoping he can meet the expectations of the audiences he developed.
Many see the merger of the US$7.7 billion movie industry with the US$6.5 billion video game industry as a natural step.
For future movies, Sakaguchi said he would like to use the main characters in the Final Fantasy movie -- female lead Aki Ross and male hero Gray Edwards -- and put them in new settings and stories. "It would be great if we could develop a star who would be something like a digital Julia Roberts," he said.
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