Hollywood’s Next Gaming Flick Comes From Roblox — And It’s Not the Game You Think
Roblox is going green—grab your gloves and sharpen those shears, because something big is about to sprout.
File this under delightful surprises: Roblox hit Grow a Garden is getting a movie. Not Brookhaven. Not Adopt Me!. Not Dress to Impress. The chill little farming sim that blew up this year is the one headed to the big screen.
What they are making
Story Kitchen is developing a film based on Grow a Garden, working directly with the game’s creators at Splitting Point Studios. This was first reported by Deadline.
If you have not played it: Grow a Garden is exactly what it sounds like — a peaceful, click-into-a-routine farming life, growing flowers and veggies, with seasonal events and side quests layered in. On paper, not the most obvious movie IP. In practice, the numbers are wild.
- Since launching in March, Grow a Garden has racked up over 33 billion plays.
- At one point, it briefly outpaced Fortnite in popularity.
- By summer 2025, the game accounted for more than two-thirds of all players logged into Roblox at once.
- The film is aimed at all ages and being pitched as a big-hearted, epic-feeling story about growth, friendship, and what happens when you nurture something from the ground up.
- No release date yet — it is early days.
The pitch (such as it is)
Plot details are locked up, so do not expect a logline yet. The vibe they are describing is family-friendly, with the kind of earnest, plant-a-seed-and-watch-it-change-your-life arc you can scale up for a movie without breaking the game’s cozy spirit. Honestly, if they keep the tone right, this could work.
Who is steering this
Story Kitchen is busy turning games into screen projects right now. They have Life Is Strange, Split Fiction, and It Takes Two in the pipeline. Their Tomb Raider series — with Sophie Turner playing Lara Croft — is slated to start production in January 2026. So yes, they are very much in the game-to-screen business.
'Grow a Garden is exactly the kind of imaginative, heartfelt world we love to adapt, an uplifting story-world rooted in play, creativity, and community.'
— Story Kitchen co-founders Dmitri M. Johnson and Michael Lawrence Goldberg
Bottom line
A Roblox farming sim getting a movie might sound basic, but the player base and momentum here are no joke. Story Kitchen is making it with the Splitting Point team, it is meant for all ages, and while we do not have a date yet, the project is officially growing.