Geoffrey Thorne Adapting VR Game 'Events At Unity
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- Geoffrey Thorne signed on to adapt the steampunky VR video game Events at Unity Farm into a live-action TV series for Titan1Studios, writing and exec producing alongside partner Todd Sharp through their banner The Winterman Project.
- The TV adaptation will follow Ruth Bowie, a reserved teenager descended from a matrilineal line of witches, as she and her family return to the titular farm and its supernatural horrors, with Thorne expanding on the game's characters to emphasize the multigenerational Bowie family legacy and contemporary YA themes.
- Titan1Studios, a Canadian company, originally released Events at Unity Farm in 2023 as its first wholly-developed and published game — a PCVR mystery puzzle shooter.
- The adaptation is part of Titan1Studios' plan to expand its Multipocalypse Universe, a dark fantasy, steampunk, and Lovecraftian horror-themed world; CEO Rathan Moorthy said additional news about the company's separate Relativity Universe is slated for later this year.
- The news was announced at the Banff World Media Festival this week, coinciding with Titan1Studios' tenth anniversary — the studio launched two distinct comic book universes in 2016.
Why it matters: Titan1Studios is using its 10th anniversary to aggressively scale original IP from indie comics and VR games into TV, betting that Thorne's genre pedigree — from *Batman: Caped Crusader* and *Power: Book II: Ghost* — can translate a niche 2023 PCVR title into broader YA supernatural-horror programming, with the Multipocalypse and Relativity universes positioned as the foundation of that global push.
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