Dredge was created by Black Salt Games in New Zealand.

Story Kitchen and Black Salt Games will bring Dredge from gaming to live-action film

Story Kitchen, a game adaptation company, has partnered with Black Salt Games to adapt the video game Dredge into a live-action feature film.

Story Kitchen described the game as The Sixth Sense on the water, or a grounded atmospheric cosmic horror blend of HP Lovecraft and Ernest Hemingway.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.