Overview
- Entertainment Weekly reported Monday that a live-action Sea of Thieves film is officially in development and that Destin Daniel Cretton will produce the project through his Hisako Films label.
- Xbox has not named a director, cast, distributor, or release date for the Sea of Thieves film, and the project remains at an early development stage.
- Xbox executive Matt Booty said the game’s ‘main character’ is its player community, indicating the film will aim to translate the title’s cooperative, social tone rather than focus on a single protagonist.
- The announcement comes as part of a broader slate that includes a live-action Gears of War origin story being developed by David Leitch and writer Jon Spaihts, animated Gears and Minecraft series for Netflix, a Wolfenstein show at Amazon, and a Fallout Shelter reality series now filming.
- Sea of Thieves is a 2018 live-service pirate game that had reached more than 40 million players by April 2024, and the move reflects a wider industry trend of publishers adapting game IP for film and television to reach new audiences.