A point-and-click mystery game from my childhood is getting the live-action movie treatment from the studio behind Sonic the Hedgehog, and I couldn't be more excited

A movie based on the point-and-click mystery game Broken Sword is on the way from Story Kitchen, the studio behind the massively successful live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie franchise.

The list of upcoming video game movies just keeps on growing, but this one is pretty exciting for us early aughts kids with Gateway computers. According to Variety, Broken Sword is being adapted into a feature-length movie with Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos set to pen the script.

The first game in the franchise, Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars, saw an American tourist named George Stobbart team up with French photojournalist Nicole Collard to solve a mystery left behind by the shadowy organization known as the Knights Templar. The point-and-click adventure-mystery game involves puzzles, collecting items, talking to NPCS, and all the 2D good stuff you could ever want in an early PC game. Four games have been released since, with the latest arriving via Kickstarter campaign in 2013 and a sixth game announced back in 2023.

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"Very few franchises of this era have stayed relevant, premium, and loyal to the intelligence of their audience. ‘Broken Sword’ has done all three," Story Kitchen co-founders Dmitri M. Johnson and Michael Lawrence Goldberg said via joint statement. “Our work here isn’t to adapt a game into a film. It’s to move a world that has been building for three decades into the next medium it deserves, working hand-in-hand with the people who built it."

Broken Sword does not yet have a release date. For more, check out our list of the most exciting upcoming movies in 2026 and beyond, or check out our list of movie release dates.