Story Kitchen partners with tinyBuild and Redemption Road for Hollywood’s next medieval journey, this time with time travel and pickup trucks 

LOS ANGELES – August 08, 2024 – Today, the ‘franchise-building production company’ Story Kitchen—behind upcoming Tomb Raider adaptations—announced a partnership with tinyBuild and Redemption Road Games to adapt the upcoming medieval time traveling action game, KINGMAKERS, into a live-action film.    

KINGMAKERS allows players to bring an arsenal of assault rifles, humvees, and attack helicopters to war-torn medieval England, where they’ll assist Owain Glyndower’s 1401 Welsh Rebellion, via massive simulated battles. Story Kitchen’s adaptation will ask the question: What if Braveheart included time travel?

tinyBuild, Redemption Road Games, and Story Kitchen will develop the film, aiming to tell a unique story and establish the IP. 

KINGMAKERS, which has become a hugely anticipated viral sensation since its announcement trailer earlier this year, is now in the top 20 most wishlisted games on Steam.

“The action, world-building, and intriguing sci-fi of KINGMAKERS make it a perfect concoction to build a propulsive new franchise in Hollywood,” gleefully stated by Story Kitchen’s Dmitri M. Johnson.

“We are extremely pumped to be partnering with the team at Story Kitchen to adapt KINGMAKERS into a time bending spectacle of a movie” says Alex Nichiporchik, tinyBuild’s CEO.

Additionally, the partnership was aided by Moonrock, an experiential marketing agency that recently solidified a strategic partnership with Story Kitchen. John Benyamine and John Gaudiosi, the co-founders of Moonrock, bring decades of experience as former videogame journalists. 

More information on Story Kitchen and upcoming adaptations can be found here and their press kit found here. KINGMAKERS can be wishlisted on Steam and updates found on their Twitter.   

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About Story Kitchen

STORY KITCHEN is a dynamic media company specializing in universe building and franchise architecture; specializing in the adaptation of videogames and other ‘non-traditional’ IP into Film/TV. Founded in 2022 by SONIC THE HEDGEHOG co-producer Dmitri M. Johnson and former APA Agent/Partner Mike Goldberg, alongside their veteran Production and Development Executives, Timothy I. Stevenson and Dan Jevons

Recent projects include adaptations of Crystal Dynamics’ iconic TOMB RAIDER franchise (live-action TV & Film with Amazon MGM Studios and the animated TV series with Netflix), JUST CAUSE for Universal Pictures with Ángel Manuel Soto directing and 87North co-producing, Sega’s 90s classics, STREETS OF RAGE for Lionsgate with Escape Artists co-producing and TOEJAM & EARL for Amazon MGM Studios with Steph Curry co-producing as well as ‘Game of the Year’, IT TAKES TWO, for Amazon MGM Studios with Seven Bucks co-producing. 

Finally, Story Kitchen has a Television first-look deal at Amazon MGM Studios as well as an Animated Film first-look deal at DreamWorks Animation

Story Kitchen is repped by WME, Pryor Cashman and TriplePoint PR. For more information, visit their website at https://www.story-kitchen.com/ 

About tinyBuild

Founded in 2013, tinyBuild is a global video games publisher and developer, with a catalog of more than 80 premium titles across different genres. tinyBuild’s strategy is to focus on its own intellectual property (IP) to build multi-game and multimedia franchises, in partnership with developers. For more information, visit their website at https://www.tinybuild.com

About Redemption Road Games

Redemption Road is a game studio based in Atlanta, GA. Our previous title is the much beloved game Road Redemption. The studio is focused on innovative gameplay that uses groundbreaking technology to tell compelling stories and create unique gaming experiences. For more information, visit their website at https://redemptionroadgames.com/