This year really is off to a rocky start. The geopolitical sphere is more troublesome than ever, coups and wars and rebellions are springing up everywhere, and the entire world seems at a boiling point. You’d think these hard times would make us look back, searching for lost meaning in great art, wishing to revive it. Nope! Best we can do is brainrot memes.
According to Deadline, a movie adaptation of the Roblox game Steal a Brainrot is currently in early production, made by Story Kitchen. If you’re lucky enough not to have heard of this game, it basically boils down to stealing or purchasing so-called brainrots, those memes you saw on Tik Tok and Instagram reels for a couple of months generated by AI with stellar names like Tung Tung Tung Sahur or Trallalero Trallala. Yes, those are real things.
It’s a competitive game that’s quick, chaotic, and fun, or so its many dozens of millions of players would think. The game’s got over 55 billion visits total so far and is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) Roblox games in existence. Truly great, this time we live in.
Naturally, Hollywood would love to capitalize on this new craze with the kids. Story Kitchen is likely seeking to replicate the meteoric success of Five Night at Freddy’s adaptations, or repeat its own sky-high box office numbers from the Sonic adaptations. The game to film pipeline has never been more profitable, and so it’s no surprise that big studios would want to jump in on the fun while it’s still hot.
To make the movie as close to the source material as possible, Story Kitchen will be working with its creators, Think Influence.
In a statement conveyed by Deadline, the creators and Story Kitchen signed off this partnership with “Noobini Pizzanini 6-7,” whatever the hell that means.
Anyhow, Story Kitchen is also working on the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 adaptation, which I’m inclined to be more excited for than this, as the name itself says, brain-rotting stuff.
Not only that, the company has already worked on bringing many games to the silver screen, like three Sonic the Hedgehog movies, and upcoming adaptations of various other IPs like Tomb Raider, Life is Strange, Split Fiction, It Takes Two, and others.
