Overview
- Deadline reports that Sony Pictures and production company Story Kitchen have secured live-action feature film rights to The Drifter and will develop a movie version of the game.
- Story Kitchen producers Dmitri M. Johnson and Michael Lawrence Goldberg are attached to produce with Timothy I. Stevenson and Elena Sandoval named as executive producers.
- Industry sources say writers and directors are already pitching on the project but no screenwriter, director, or release date has been announced.
- The Drifter is a 2D point-and-click game from Australian two‑person studio Powerhoof that follows an unhoused man trapped in a recurring time loop after witnessing a violent crime, and it won multiple Australian Game Developer Awards including Game of the Year.
- The deal adds to Story Kitchen’s string of game-to-screen projects and could raise the profile and commercial prospects for small studios like Powerhoof while shifting attention to which creative team Sony and Story Kitchen will attach next.