Broken Sword movie in development with series creator and Story Kitchen

Broken Sword is finally headed to the movies, and the adaptation only has a real shot if it keeps the series’ brainy, character-first identity intact. Revolution Software is making the film with Story Kitchen and writer Evan Spiliotopoulos, while Charles Cecil, the founder and CEO of Revolution, is attached to produce alongside Noirin Carmody.

That detail matters because Broken Sword was never built like a chase-heavy blockbuster property. The series debuted in 1996 with The Shadow of the Templars, stretched across five games over roughly 30 years, and has been played by more than 10 million people. Its hook has always been the mix of investigation, wit, historical conspiracy, and the chemistry between George Stobbart, an American patent lawyer, and Nico Collard, a French journalist, as they move through murder cases, secret societies, lost civilizations, and European locations that feel lived-in rather than generic.

Story Kitchen’s involvement gives the project some muscle. The company lists Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic the Hedgehog 4, Life is Strange, and Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft among its adaptation projects, which puts Broken Sword in the middle of a pipeline that already has real game-to-screen credibility. On paper, that is the right kind of company to handle a series where the challenge is not spectacle, but tone, pacing, and the specific pleasure of solving one odd little puzzle after another.

The commercial case is not exactly flimsy, either. Revolution announced Broken Sword 6, Parzival’s Stone, in August 2023, which shows the property is still active rather than living off memory. In 2026, the Kickstarter for Broken Sword: Smoking Mirror: Reforged - Collector’s Edition pulled in £743,138 from 4,833 backers, smashing its £50,000 goal and underlining how much goodwill still sits behind the name.

Story Kitchen co-founders Dmitri M. Johnson and Michael Lawrence Goldberg called Broken Sword one of the few franchises of its era to stay “relevant, premium, and loyal to the intelligence of their audience,” and Cecil said the goal is to move the world that has been building for three decades into the next medium while working hand-in-hand with the people who built it. That is exactly the right instinct here. If the film preserves the mystery, the European atmosphere, and the dry chemistry that made the games stick, Broken Sword could become more than another nostalgia play. If it strips those away, it will miss the one thing the series has always done better than most of its peers.