Netflix is adapting the board sport Ticket to Journey

Netflix has been within the sport adaptation enterprise for some time now, however till lately most of its consideration had been on adapting video video games. That’s nonetheless very a lot happening, however the streaming big can also be now shopping for up rights for board sport IP too, with the newest being Asmodee’s Ticket to Journey.

Netflix will look to greenlight a lot of initiatives spanning TV, movie and “further codecs,” it wrote in a press launch. The primary of those shall be a function movie written by Ben Mekler and Chris Amick. Ticket to Journey creator Alan R. Moon will function an govt producer on the undertaking, which would be the sport’s first on-screen adaptation. Precisely what it would appear like is just not but clear, however the web already has of theories.

Ticket to Journey is a train-themed turn-based technique and route-building sport 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 therapy earlier than.

That is really the second of Asmodee’s IP that Netflix has acquired the rights to, after asserting final 12 months that  can even be making its technique to screens in varied varieties. And it isn’t simply all in favour of scripted TV and film alternatives. In early 2025, the corporate additionally signed a cope with Hasbro to adapt  right into a TV sport present.