{"id":92315,"date":"2026-10-29T15:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T19:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92315"},"modified":"2026-10-29T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:47:12","slug":"pubg-is-getting-a-live-action-series-on-netflix-written-directed-by-and-starring-donald-glover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92315","title":{"rendered":"PUBG is Getting a Live-Action Series on Netflix Written, Directed by, and Starring Donald Glover"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Yep, you read that right: Grammy-award winning music artist and actor Donald Glover is directing and starring in a live-action series adapting Krafton\u2019s battle royale game, PUBG.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/pubg-battlegrounds\">PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds<\/a> is getting the Hollywood treatment with a TV show that will be written, produced, directed by, and starring Donald Glover. His brother, Stephen Glover, is also involved in the project as a co-writer and executive producer.<\/p>\n<p>Other executive producers on the series include Michael Schaefer for NEON TV, Fam Udeorji for Gilga, and Taeseok Jang and Sujin Lee for LV3H. As told in a press release shared with IGN, Krafton \u2014 the South Korean gaming conglomerate that owns the franchise \u2014 is intent on expanding the IP into \u201coriginal entertainment content.\u201d LV3H, its entertainment entity, is also helping develop and produce the series.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"pubg-dednet-screenshots\" data-value=\"pubg-dednet-screenshots\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>While making an entire series based on a game where 100 players are dropped onto an island to fight to the death might seem like a bit of a stretch, there\u2019s actually some pretty deep lore that explains the \u2018why\u2019 of it all. Admittedly, PUBG was initially created as a purely multiplayer experience, but it has since been fleshed out with an <a href=\"https:\/\/pubg.com\/en\/game-info\/pubg-universe\">encompassing narrative<\/a> that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, you read that right: Grammy-award winning music artist and actor Donald Glover is directing and starring in a live-action series adapting Krafton\u2019s battle royale game, PUBG. PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds is getting the Hollywood treatment with a TV show that will be written, produced, directed by, and starring Donald Glover. His brother, Stephen Glover, is also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":92317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92319,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92315\/revisions\/92319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}