{"id":951101,"date":"2026-10-29T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951101\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:38:08","slug":"pubg-live-action-series-from-donald-glover-in-the-works-at-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951101\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;PUBG&#8217; Live-Action Series From Donald Glover in the Works at Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> is developing a live-action series based on the battle royale video game \u201cPlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds\u201d (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/pubg\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pubg\" data-tag=\"pubg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PUBG<\/a>\u201c) with <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/donald-glover\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-glover\" data-tag=\"donald-glover\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Glover<\/a> attached to star. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn addition to starring, Glover and his brother and frequent collaborator <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/stephen-glover\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-glover\" data-tag=\"stephen-glover\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Glover<\/a> will write and executive produce the \u201cPUBG\u201d show, with Donald also planning to direct. Michael Schaefer of Neon TV will also executive produce, as will Fam Udeorji for Gilga, and Taeseok Jang and Sujin Lee for LV3H, the entertainment division of \u201cPUBG\u201d publisher Krafton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cPUBG\u201d was originally published by Krafton in 2017. The game does not have a plot, but rather sees large numbers of players dropped into one of several maps featuring a wide array of weapons, vehicles, and other items in a last-man standing deathmatch. Exact plot details for the potential show are under wraps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cPUBG\u201d is one of the most popular video games in the world even nearly 10 years after it was released. It broke multiple Guiness world records upon its initial release and continues to pull in hundreds of thousands of active users daily.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDonald and Stephen most famously worked together on the hit FX series \u201cAtlanta.\u201d Donald created and starred in the show, with Stephen serving as a writer and executive producer throughout its four-season run. They then teamed on the Amazon series \u201cSwarm\u201d and the musical film \u201cGuava Island,\u201d with Stephen also writing for Donald\u2019s Amazon series \u201cMr. and Mrs. Smith.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDonald is also known for his work on shows like \u201cCommunity\u201d and \u201c30 Rock,\u201d as well as for starring in films like \u201cThe Martian,\u201d \u201cSpider-Man Homecoming,\u201d \u201cSolo: A Star Wars Story,\u201d and \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDonald is repped by The Team and Johnson Shapiro Slewett &amp; Kole. Stephen is repped by WME and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tShould the \u201cPUBG\u201d show go forward, it would be the latest video game adaptation to find a home at Netflix. The streamer is currently at work on an \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d TV series and a \u201cGears of War\u201d live-action film. Animated series based on games like \u201cClash of Clans\u201d and \u201cMinecraft\u201d are also in the works, while Netflix currently airs shows like \u201cSplinter Cell: Deathwatch\u201d and \u201cCyberpunk: Edgerunners.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix is developing a live-action series based on the battle royale video game \u201cPlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds\u201d (\u201cPUBG\u201c) with Donald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,116098,75,1316,129807,325292],"class_list":["post-951101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-donald-glover","tag-entertainment","tag-netflix","tag-pubg","tag-stephen-glover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}