Xbox is going full steam ahead with a slate of films and TV shows, which now includes a live-action adaptation of Rare’s 2018 pirate-filled, social-sim adventure game, Sea of Thieves.
According to a June 22 Entertainment Weekly report, Xbox has “over a dozen adaptations in the works.” Some of these projects are already known–Death Stranding is getting a film, Netflix is fully supporting an animated and live-action Gears movie, Fallout has a new season, and Minecraft is getting a sequel film.
But one that may come as a surprise is that Sea of Thieves will get the live-action treatment, too, with American filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton (Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) producing. No director has been attached to the project just yet, though.
Matt Booty, Xbox’s newly minted chief content officer and executive vice president, teased to Entertainment Weekly what the film’s story would be about.
“The main character of a Sea of Thieves game is actually the player and the community,” Booty said. “So if you sit down to think about Sea of Thieves, it’s not, ‘Who are the main characters? What’s the plot?’ It’s a super social game, but there’s a tone to Sea of Thieves. It’s built on a very cooperative community, so you can start to sense what that’s going to be like.”
Developed by Rare Limited and published by Xbox Game Studios, Sea of Thieves is an open-world pirate action-adventure game that launched on Xbox consoles in 2018. You create a pirate, helm a ship, and sail the seven seas in search of bodies to shoot and booty to plunder. While you can play solo, the game was built with multiplayer in mind, so it’ll be curious to see how Hollywood brings a live-action adaptation of a primarily social game to life.