{"id":2006739,"date":"2026-06-23T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2006739"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:39:52","slug":"sea-of-thieves-is-becoming-a-live-action-movie-the-gears-of-war-film-apparently-has-a-plot-and-microsofts-considering-bringing-the-halo-tv-show-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2006739","title":{"rendered":"Sea of Thieves is becoming a live-action movie, the Gears of War film apparently has a plot, and Microsoft&#8217;s considering bringing the Halo TV show back"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">Sea of Thieves is becoming a live-action movie, the Gears of War film apparently has a plot, and Microsoft&#8217;s considering bringing the Halo TV show back<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Master geez.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/sea-of-thieves-story-AdobeStock_419766695.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The silhouettes of four pirates against the sun in an image that&apos;s overlaid where a movie should be in a theatre.\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"sea-of-thieves-story-AdobeStock_419766695.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Microsoft \/ Adobe Stock<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/robert-purchese\">Robert Purchese<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Associate Editor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-06-23T16:39:52+00:00\">June 23, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"1db72fe1-5c27-4e10-bfd2-fd2a5bc5d9b9\" data-name=\"Gears of War: E-day\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Gears of War: E-day\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Gears of War: E-day\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Gears of War: E-day\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Gears of War: E-day\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Gears of War: E-day\" title=\"Follow Gears of War: E-day\"><br \/>\n  Follow Gears of War: E-day<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Xbox&#8217;s&#8217;s piratical multiplayer game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/sea-of-thieves\">Sea of Thieves<\/a> is being made into a live-action movie, Microsoft is toying with the idea of bringing the Halo TV series back &#8211; or at least doing something more in that area &#8211; and we&#8217;ve got the first plot details for the Gears of War film. There&#8217;s a plot? Stop it &#8211; don&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p>The news tumbles out of <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/xbox-25th-anniversary-hollywood-adaptations-cover-story-exclusive-12003252\">Entertainment Weekly and a big interview it conducted with Microsoft<\/a>. Let&#8217;s tackle Sea of Thieves first. This is one of several film projects in development by Microsoft, EW reported. Apparently Marvel filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton &#8211; who has just finished directing Spider-Man: Brand New Day &#8211; is producing it through his company Hisako Films, though no director has been attached.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/xbox-game-studios\">Xbox Game Studios<\/a> boss Matt Booty said in the EW interview: &#8220;The main character of a Sea of Thieves game is actually the player and the community. So if you sit down to think about Sea of Thieves, it&#8217;s not who are the main characters? What&#8217;s the plot? It&#8217;s a super social game, but there&#8217;s a ton to Sea of Thieves. It&#8217;s built on a very cooperative community, so you can start to sense what that&#8217;s going to be like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Halo The Series (2022) | Official Trailer | Paramount+\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KZ3MKraNKY?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/5KZ3MKraNKY\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Halo The Series (2022) | Official Trailer | Paramount+<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5KZ3MKraNKY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>No I can&#8217;t really sense what that&#8217;s going to be like, but I assume it&#8217;ll be a lighthearted buccanneering tale. Maybe something along the lines of Pirates of the Caribbean?<\/p>\n<p>Onto the possibility of a Halo TV reappearance next, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/paramounts-divisive-halo-tv-series-cancelled-after-two-seasons\">a show Paramount+ cancelled after two seasons<\/a>, but which got a new lease of life after airing on Netflix relatively recently. &#8220;Halo, first and foremost, is one of our biggest franchises,&#8221; Booty said. &#8220;It&#8217;s iconic to Xbox and we&#8217;re certainly going to invest going forward.&#8221; I actually watched a couple of episodes of the Halo show and it was okay &#8211; there&#8217;s my dynamite hot-take. I didn&#8217;t see the sex scene.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Which leaves us with Gears of War. The film, directed by The Fall Guy director David Leitch, will apparently tell the origin story of Delta Squad. This is the  crew Marcus Fenix leads in the Gears of War games, and we&#8217;ll see more of it in the upcoming Gears of War: E-Day game.<\/p>\n<p>A description of the film plot reads: &#8220;The origin story of Delta Squad, a ragtag crew of soldiers who wage a desperate war for survival against the Locust, a race of subterranean creatures set on destroying humanity.&#8221; Not especially revealing, is it?<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say Microsoft has cinematic and multimedia ambitions for its brands beyond gaming. As Xbox boss Asha Sharma said in the EW interview: &#8220;You won&#8217;t see us try to become the biggest linear provider in the world or anything like that, but I think great games are culture, and culture is entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you think about it, we&#8217;ve got the number two show of all time on Amazon [Fallout], Minecraft was top five in 2025, Call of Duty is bigger than the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So it all measures. [There&#8217;s] more appetite to work with us on titles than ever before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/compulsion-double-fine-ninja-theory-xbox-studio-closures-report\">we&#8217;re bracing for Xbox to announce significant restructuring<\/a> that could leave hundreds of people without jobs and see the closure of well-known and even beloved game studios. The futures of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/psychonauts\">Psychonauts<\/a> developer Double Fine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/south-of-midnight\">South of Midnight<\/a> developer Compulsion, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/hellblade\">Hellblade<\/a> developer Ninja Theory are all reported to be on the line. And they may not be the only ones.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Xbox&#8217;s&#8217;s piratical multiplayer game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/sea-of-thieves\">Sea of Thieves<\/a> is being made into a live-action movie, Microsoft is toying with the idea of bringing the Halo TV series back &#8211; or at least doing something more in that area &#8211; and we&#8217;ve got the first plot details for the Gears of War film. There&#8217;s a plot? Stop it &#8211; don&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p>The news tumbles out of <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/xbox-25th-anniversary-hollywood-adaptations-cover-story-exclusive-12003252\">Entertainment Weekly and a big interview it conducted with Microsoft<\/a>. Let&#8217;s tackle Sea of Thieves first. This is one of several film projects in development by Microsoft, EW reported. Apparently Marvel filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton &#8211; who has just finished directing Spider-Man: Brand New Day &#8211; is producing it through his company Hisako Films, though no director has been attached.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/xbox-game-studios\">Xbox Game Studios<\/a> boss Matt Booty said in the EW interview: &#8220;The main character of a Sea of Thieves game is actually the player and the community. So if you sit down to think about Sea of Thieves, it&#8217;s not who are the main characters? What&#8217;s the plot? It&#8217;s a super social game, but there&#8217;s a ton to Sea of Thieves. It&#8217;s built on a very cooperative community, so you can start to sense what that&#8217;s going to be like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Halo The Series (2022) | Official Trailer | Paramount+\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KZ3MKraNKY?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/5KZ3MKraNKY\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Halo The Series (2022) | Official Trailer | Paramount+<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5KZ3MKraNKY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>No I can&#8217;t really sense what that&#8217;s going to be like, but I assume it&#8217;ll be a lighthearted buccanneering tale. Maybe something along the lines of Pirates of the Caribbean?<\/p>\n<p>Onto the possibility of a Halo TV reappearance next, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/paramounts-divisive-halo-tv-series-cancelled-after-two-seasons\">a show Paramount+ cancelled after two seasons<\/a>, but which got a new lease of life after airing on Netflix relatively recently. &#8220;Halo, first and foremost, is one of our biggest franchises,&#8221; Booty said. &#8220;It&#8217;s iconic to Xbox and we&#8217;re certainly going to invest going forward.&#8221; I actually watched a couple of episodes of the Halo show and it was okay &#8211; there&#8217;s my dynamite hot-take. I didn&#8217;t see the sex scene.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Which leaves us with Gears of War. The film, directed by The Fall Guy director David Leitch, will apparently tell the origin story of Delta Squad. This is the  crew Marcus Fenix leads in the Gears of War games, and we&#8217;ll see more of it in the upcoming Gears of War: E-Day game.<\/p>\n<p>A description of the film plot reads: &#8220;The origin story of Delta Squad, a ragtag crew of soldiers who wage a desperate war for survival against the Locust, a race of subterranean creatures set on destroying humanity.&#8221; Not especially revealing, is it?<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say Microsoft has cinematic and multimedia ambitions for its brands beyond gaming. As Xbox boss Asha Sharma said in the EW interview: &#8220;You won&#8217;t see us try to become the biggest linear provider in the world or anything like that, but I think great games are culture, and culture is entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you think about it, we&#8217;ve got the number two show of all time on Amazon [Fallout], Minecraft was top five in 2025, Call of Duty is bigger than the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So it all measures. [There&#8217;s] more appetite to work with us on titles than ever before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/compulsion-double-fine-ninja-theory-xbox-studio-closures-report\">we&#8217;re bracing for Xbox to announce significant restructuring<\/a> that could leave hundreds of people without jobs and see the closure of well-known and even beloved game studios. The futures of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/psychonauts\">Psychonauts<\/a> developer Double Fine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/south-of-midnight\">South of Midnight<\/a> developer Compulsion, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/hellblade\">Hellblade<\/a> developer Ninja Theory are all reported to be on the line. And they may not be the only ones.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Sea of Thieves is becoming a live-action movie, the Gears of War film apparently has a plot, and Microsoft&#8217;s considering bringing the Halo TV show back Master geez. 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