Ironwood Studios’ Pacific Drive has a new destination: television.
Per Variety, the car-heavy survival title is being adapted for the small screen by horror director James Wan’s production company, Atomic Monster. Michael Clear and Rob Hackett from the same company will serve as executive producers alongside Wan. A streamer or network has not been attached to series.
Pacific Drive released back in February for the PlayStation 5 and PC and has sold over 600,000 copies worldwide. In game, players must use a station wagon to escape an exclusion zone in the Pacific Northwest while dealing with gameplay-altering anomalies.
The game was nominated for Best Debut Indie Game at The Game Awards 2024, and won Best Game at Gamescom Latam’s BIG Festival Awards in June.
Game adaptations along the road
Pacific Drive is the latest in a long line of video games to get tapped for a TV or film adaptation. Mass Effect, Minecraft, Alan Wake, and Control have all been picked up by major studios for eventual adaptations onto Prime Video, Netflix, or theaters.
Other adaptations of major game franchises–such as Tomb Raider, Like a Dragon, and Fallout–landed this year to strong reviews and renewals. Another game series, Arcane: League of Legends, concluded with its sophomore season back in November.
Not every game is making it to TV and film, though. Ubisoft scrapped its proposed Splinter Cell adaptation decades after announcing the project in 2005. Meanwhile, Netflix’s plans for a TV show based on PlayStation and Guerrilla Games’ Horizon series fell apart after showrunner Steven Blackman was accused of workplace abuse.