Bungie co-founder Jason Jones and Destiny 2 narrative director Margaret Stohl have launched a transmedia studio called Stone Kite, GamesIndustry.biz reported. Stohl is chief executive of the Los Angeles-based company, which describes itself as a world-building studio.
Jones co-created the Halo and Destiny franchises at Bungie. Stohl has worked on several video games and co-founded 7 Studios with Lewis Paterson, a company Activision later acquired; she is also the author of the Beautiful Creatures series.
One Zero One
Stone Kite is debuting with its first intellectual property, One Zero One, adapted from an original manuscript by Jones. The story centres on what the studio calls a coming worldwide conflict between humanity and a rogue army of AI-driven robotic soldiers.
One Zero One will launch as a four-part comic book series, with new issues released online for free in early 2027. Additional media projects are to follow, according to GamesIndustry.biz.
The team
Stone Kite's founding team includes former media senior vice-president Stephen Wacker, president Lewis Peterson, film and television vice-president Matt Johnson, and narrative creative director Jeanine Schaefer. The studio says it is collaborating with more than 250 creators from across the entertainment industry, among them director and producer Jay Roach, comic book writer and artist Christian Ward, illustrator Kyle Lambert, author Stephen Graham Jones, and screenwriter Akela Cooper.
I've spent my career creating books, games, comics, film and television, and I've seen how often the medium that tells the first story ends up defining everything that comes after it. Stone Kite is about breaking down those old media silos.
Stohl said the studio's approach is to bring creators from different disciplines into the room from the outset to shape a world together, rather than starting in one medium and adapting outward. Jones said Stohl was the first person to believe he could write a book of his own, the first to read it, and the one he trusted to help develop it into what he called epic entertainment.
