Adventure game Dredge, released last year, which combined Lovecraftian horror with fishing, is now being developed as a live-action film. Production company Story Kitchen, founded by Sonic the Hedgehog film producer and dj2 Entertainment founder Dmitri M. Johnson, is working with Dredge developer Black Salt Games to turn the game into a movie.
Johnson is known for a growing number of video game adaptations, including the upcoming Netflix animated series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, as well as projects in development based on Sega's Streets of Rage, ToeJam & Earl and Hazelight's It Takes Two. Story Kitchen executives Mike Goldberg, Timothy I. Stevenson and Dan Jevons are working in collaboration with Johnson on the realization of the movie.
Dredge was released in March 2023 and quickly became a huge hit, reaching over one million copies sold in about six months. Black Salt Games stated that the title completely exceeded their internal expectations, as the studio originally predicted sales of 100,000 units in the first year after launch.