Netflix has been within the recreation adaptation enterprise for some time now, however till just lately most of its consideration had been on adapting video video games. That’s nonetheless very a lot occurring, however the streaming big can be now shopping for up rights for board recreation IP too, with the most recent being Asmodee’s Ticket to Trip.
Netflix will look to greenlight numerous tasks spanning TV, movie and “further codecs,” it wrote in a press launch. The primary of those will likely be a characteristic movie written by Ben Mekler and Chris Amick. Ticket to Trip creator Alan R. Moon will function an government producer on the venture, which would be the recreation’s first on-screen adaptation. Precisely what it’ll seem like isn’t but clear, however the web already has of theories.
Ticket to Trip is a train-themed turn-based technique and route-building recreation first launched over 20 years in the past. Since then it has gone on to ship greater than 20 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. It’s additionally been given the adaptation remedy earlier than.
That is really the second of Asmodee’s IP that Netflix has acquired the rights to, after saying final yr that will even be making its option to screens in numerous varieties. And it isn’t simply interested by scripted TV and film alternatives. In early 2025, the corporate additionally signed a take care of Hasbro to adapt right into a TV recreation present.
