A film adaptation of the hit videogame franchise Slime Rancher is in development. American indie studio Monomi Park, who developed the game, will be collaborating with Story Kitchen for the feature adaptation.
Slime Rancher was released as an early access title in January 2016, with an official release on Windows, macOS, Linux and Xbox One on August 2017. Later a sequel, Slime Rancher 2, was released early access in September. 2022.
The game is played in an open world and from a first-person perspective. The player controls a character named Beatrix LeBeau, a rancher who moves to a planet far from Earth called the Far Far Range to live the life of a "slime rancher", which consists of constructing her ranch and exploring the world of the Far Far Range to collect, raise, feed, and breed slimes ( Slimes are gelatinous living organisms of various sizes and characteristics). Each day, the player encounters a new challenge in slime ranching.
Further details about the film are yet to be revealed.
It is to be noted that screen adaptations of popular games have been receiving a broad reception. The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the adaption of Nintendo's Mario video game franchise and Naughty Dog's Last of Us are recent triumphs in the videogame adaptions.
