Annapurna is going to adapt the cat game Stray into a film, and also wants to adapt other games into films

Annapurna Interactive is working on an animated film based on its own cat game Stray. The company does not yet provide many details, but talks about a ‘buddy comedy’. A release date has not yet been announced.

“Stray is a game about what makes us human, even though there are no humans in the game,” says Annapurna Animation boss Andrew Millstein to Entertainment Weekly. In the interview, he attributes the game’s popularity to, among other things, the fact that you view the game world from the eyes of a cat. “How did the developer do that and how are we going to do that in a movie?” Viewing the world from the eyes of a cat is, according to Millstein, ‘the essence’ of the game and therefore important for the film.

The Stray film adaptation will have a similar ‘hopepunk’ theme to the game, in which ‘optimism is a form of resistance’. In the interview, the company says that several Annapurna game adaptations are being considered, but that work has started with Stray due to the game’s high popularity. It is not yet known who will direct the film or who will star in it. Annapurna Animation includes many Blue Sky Studios employees, an animation studio that closed in 2021 that worked on the Ice Age films, among others.

Stray is a dystopian sci-fi cat game set in a city with humanoid robots and other futuristic creatures. In the platform and puzzle game, players must escape from that city to return home. The game was released in July 2022 on PlayStation and Windows, with Mac and Xbox versions also coming later.