Story Kitchen Partnering With ‘Steal A Brainrot’ Creators On Feature Adaptation Of Roblox Game

 

Story Kitchen, the production company focused on adapting video games for film and television, is in early development on a Steal a Brainrot movie, alongside the creators of the hit Roblox game.

Emerging as a breakout phenomenon since its release this past May, Steal a Brainrot sees players attempt to buy, collect, and steal “brainrots” — absurd, meme-inspired characters or items — to build an ever-growing collection, before rebirthing to chase bigger multipliers and rarer drops. With more than 55 billion visits and one of the most engaged communities on Roblox, the game’s rise has been fueled by a fast, repeatable loop that turns every session into a mix of strategy, comedy, and chaos. Demonstrating rare event-scale reach, with an all-time peak of 25.8 million concurrent players in October 2025, the its impact has also recently been felt in the real world, by way of a concert this past weekend with Bruno Mars.

The Steal a Brainrot film will embody the experience’s signature combination of chaos, comedy, and competitive mischief, inviting audiences into a fast-paced world where every score can make you rich, every risk can reset your run, and every rival is one move away from taking it all back.

Story Kitchen is developing and producing the project in partnership with Do Big Studios and Spyder Games. The project is led by Dmitri M. Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg, Timothy I. Stevenson, and Elena Sandoval, and will be produced in association with Think Influence, which reps the creators of Steal a Brainrot.

In a joint statement, Story Kitchen co-founders Johnson and Goldberg said, “We’re thrilled to bring STEAL A BRAINROT to the big screen.” Signing off with brainrot lingo, they wrote, “Noobini Pizzanini 6-7.”

Since its launch in 2022, Story Kitchen has quickly become a dominant force in the development of hit games for the screen. Currently, they’re spearheading adaptations of Tomb Raider (for Amazon MGM & Netflix), Life Is Strange (Amazon MGM), Teddy Ruxpin (Amazon MGM) and Just Cause (Universal), as well as SEGA’s popular ’90s games Streets of Rage (Lionsgate), Shinobi (Universal) and Toejam & Earl (Amazon MGM). Additionally, Story Kitchen is shepherding adaptations of acclaimed indie games, including Split Fiction (Amazon MGM), 2021’s Game of the Year It Takes Two (Amazon MGM), Sifu (Netflix), and Ruiner (Universal).

Story Kitchen has a first-look deal for television at Amazon MGM Studios and an animated film first-look deal at DreamWorks. The company is repped by WME and Pryor Cashman, and has an exclusive partnership with Moonrock, which facilitated the Steal a Brainrot collaboration.