Time-travelling bring-a-gun-to-a-sword-fight Kingmakers isn’t even out yet and it’s getting movie adaptation

Redemption Road’s time-travelling bring-an-assault-rifle-to-a-medieval-sword-fight shooter and strategy game, Kingmakers, isn’t even out yet, but it’s already secured a movie adaptation.

In an update on Steam, the studio said it was “absolutely thrilled” that the unreleased game was “making its way to the big screen” in partnership with publisher tinyBuild and Story Kitchen.

Story Kitchen – which specialises in “the adaptation of video games and other ‘non-traditional’ IP into film and TV” shows – was founded in 2022 by Sonic the Hedgehog producer, Dmitri M. Johnson. As well as the Sonic movie franchise, it’s also involved in Dredge’s adaptation, and Pheobe Waller-Bridges Tomb Raider project.

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