Sea of Thieves Live-Action Movie in Development, Microsoft Confirms

Microsoft is processing a live-action movie adaptation of Rare's evergreen pirate escapade Sea of Thieves.

Xbox caput of contented Matt Booty confirmed the quality to Entertainment Weekly, and revealed that the task was being produced by Destin Daniel Cretton, the manager of Marvel blockbusters specified arsenic the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day, arsenic good arsenic Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Cretton seemingly won't nonstop the movie himself, however.

"The main quality of a Sea of Thieves crippled is really the subordinate and the community," Booty said, discussing the film's imaginable plot. "So if you beryllium down to deliberation astir Sea of Thieves, it's not, 'Who are the main characters? What's the plot?' It's a ace societal game, but there's a code to Sea of Thieves. It's built connected a precise cooperative community, truthful you tin commencement to consciousness what that's going to beryllium like."

Originally launched for PC and Xbox One backmost successful 2018, Sea of Thieves has proved continually popular, yet gaining a current-gen console motorboat successful 2024, erstwhile it besides went multi-platform and besides arrived for PlayStation 5.

Over the years, British developer Rare has expanded Sea of Thieves' sandbox-y unfastened satellite with caller areas, gameplay types, communicative quests and much — determination was adjacent a crossover with Disney's ain Pirates of the Caribbean, arsenic good arsenic thing for fans of beloved escapade crippled bid Monkey Island.

Despite the menace of layoffs present looming implicit Xbox, Rare has antecedently suggested it plans to enactment Sea of Thieves for years to come, though this is the archetypal connection of a movie adaptation for the game.

On the taxable of those layoffs — with aggregate studios reportedly present acceptable for closure oregon divestment — Entertainment Weekly mentioned successful its reporting that restructuring plans were inactive being finalized and that Xbox enactment wanted to "exhaust each different options earlier making these decisions". Microsoft has to day not commented officially connected the subject.

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