Netflix To Adapt Military Time Travel Game Into Epic Sci-Fi Movie

Netflix has lined up another video game adaptation, teaming up with producer Shawn Levy on a feature movie based on the upcoming action-strategy title Kingmakers. The project adds to the streamer’s expanding slate of game-to-screen movies and continues its collaboration with Levy’s banner, 21 Laps.

Movie based on Kingmakers video game in works at Netflix

The streamer has acquired a feature movie pitch inspired by Kingmakers, a sandbox strategy game developed by Redemption Road Games and published by tinyBuild, as per Deadline. Christopher MacBride is attached to adapt the screenplay. Netflix secured the movie rights through its partnership with 21 Laps, which developed the project with Story Kitchen and moved quickly to take it off the market.

While specific plot details for the film remain under wraps, the game’s unique logline provides a clear blueprint. Kingmakers is set in a war-torn, medieval Great Britain. The core hook is a soldier who travels back in time armed with a vast arsenal of modern weapons—from assault rifles to vehicles—to alter the course of history and prevent a future apocalypse. The game promises massive, real-time simulated battles, a spectacle that a film adaptation would likely aim to replicate.

Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce for 21 Laps, alongside Story Kitchen’s Dmitri M. Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg, and Timothy L. Stevenson. Emily Feher will oversee development for 21 Laps, with Elena Sandoval supervising the project for Story Kitchen. TinyBuild’s Alex Nichiporchik and Jon Carnage are on board as executive producers.

The adaptation moves forward even as the Kingmakers game has been delayed. Redemption Road Games said in a statement, “In short, it’s an incredibly ambitious, uncompromising game, and we don’t want to cut any planned features, for the sake of getting it out the door earlier.” (via ScreenRant)

21 Laps is currently an executive producer on Netflix’s Stranger Things, which is heading toward its final episodes, and is also producing Star Wars: Starfighter, directed by Levy and starring Ryan Gosling. Story Kitchen continues to develop game adaptations, including Tomb Raider, Life is Strange, and Just Cause.

Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on SuperHeroHype.

Source: Comingsoon.net