Xbox Is Working On A Dozen Movies And TV Shows, Including Sea Of Thieves

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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