According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies are set to co-produce THE GAME OF SUNKEN PLACES, based on a pitch by screenwriter Matt Nix and inspired by the Scholastic Press book by M.T. Anderson.

Producer Jason Blum assembled the project.

Nix is writing the action-adventure that follows two boys who discover that the housing development where they live is in fact a gigantic game, and that the mysterious developer is a representative of a supernatural race that is testing humanity's worth.