Variety reports that Sony is in negotiations to acquire the film rights for a movie inspired by the Settlers of Catan board game property.
The object of the game is to build and expand an empire in the fictional realm of Catan with a finite amount of resources at the player’s disposal.
It’s unclear how Sony plans to translate that premise into a story, but it’s arguably open-ended enough to go in a number of different directions.
Settlers of Catan is one of the most famous and successful tabletop games ever made; having sold over 25 million copies in the three decades since its initial release, it has become a worldwide phenomenon in a wide variety of different languages, as well as several different expansion packs.