Netflix is working proactively and has already acquired the rights to adapt Kingmakers, even though the game doesn't even have a release date yet.
According to Deadline, Netflix has acquired the rights to adapt Kingmakers, a tactical action game with sandbox and strategy elements, in which a modern soldier travels to medieval Britain to change the course of history and prevent the apocalypse.
The streaming service has already launched the development of a full-length film, despite the fact that the game itself has not yet been released: analysts believe that Netflix saw the potential in the future release and decided to preemptively seize the rights to the adaptation.
Christopher McBride, director and screenwriter of the films "Flashback" and "The Conspiracy," will write the script. Shawn Levy's company, 21 Laps, one of Netflix's key partners, is producing the film in collaboration with Story Kitchen, a studio specializing in video game adaptations.
Story Kitchen is already working on adaptations of Sleeping Dogs, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Dredge, Sifu, Life is Strange, Just Cause, and other projects, and also participated in the creation of the "Sonic the Hedgehog" film trilogy and two seasons of "Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft." The company already has about 20 game adaptations planned.
Kingmakers is being developed by Redemption Road and published by tinyBuild. The plot centers on a soldier from the future who is transported to the era of medieval wars and uses modern weapons and technology to influence the outcome of large-scale battles. The announcement trailer quickly went viral thanks to absurd scenes where knights, catapults, machine guns, helicopters, armored vehicles, and warhorses coexist in the same frame.
When Kingmakers itself will be released is unknown. The release was originally scheduled for October 8, 2025, but the developers postponed it indefinitely, explaining the decision by the excessive ambition of the project and the unwillingness to sacrifice the intended mechanics in order to speed up the release.
