Bungie co-founder Jason Jones and Destiny 2 narrative director Margaret Stohl have launched a new transmedia studio called Stone Kite.
Jones co-created the Halo and Destiny franchises, while Stohl worked on several video games and co-founded 7 Studios with Lewis Paterson, which Activision later acquired. She is CEO of Stone Kite, and is also the author of the Beautiful Creatures series.
Described as a “world-building studio,” the Los Angeles-based Stone Kite is debuting with its first IP, One Zero One, adapted from an original manuscript by Jones.
One Zero One centres on “a coming worldwide conflict between humanity and a rogue army of AI-driven robotic soldiers” and will launch as a four-part comic book series. New issues will be released online for free in early 2027, followed by additional media projects.
Stone Kite’s founding team includes former media SVP Stephen Wacker, president Lewis Peterson, film and TV VP Matt Johnson, and narrative creative director Jeanine Schaefer.
Stone Kite is collaborating with more than 250 creators from across the entertainment industry, including 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,” said Stohl.
“Stone Kite is about breaking down those old media silos. Instead of starting in one medium and adapting outward, we bring the best global creators from different disciplines into the room from day one to shape the world together.”
Jason Jones added: “I used to bike fifteen miles along Lake Michigan to the used bookstores in North Chicago, and bike home again with a backpack full of sci-fi paperbacks. Margie was the first person to believe I could write a book of my own, the first person to read it, and the one person I trusted to help me develop it into epic entertainment that leaves the world a better place.”
