The first-person graphic adventure video game, Myst, is being adapted into a "multi-platform universe" featuring film, scripted and unscripted television content by Village Roadshow Entertainment Group (VREG).
Myst co-creator Rand Miller and his youngest brother Ryan Miller will work alongside Isaac Testerman and Delve Media's Yale Rice to develop and produce the projects with Village Roadshow.
Debuting in 1993, Myst follows Atrus, a brilliant and naïve grandson of Anna, a woman who triggers a world-shaping set of events when she discovers the D’ni civilization in a cavern deep below the New Mexico desert. The D’ni have the ability to write books that connect to other worlds. The Myst franchise of novels and games is built upon the discovery of this fascinating ability, along with a clash of cultures.
The Myst video game sold over 15 million copies worldwide, including a critically-acclaimed sequel named Riven in 1997. It was the bestselling PC game until the release of The Sims in 2002.
Legendary Television originally planned to bring an adaptation of the Myst video game franchise to Hulu in 2015
VREG and Vine Alternative Investments will work together to expand Myst into a shared cinematic universe across film and television.