Glover Brothers to Write and Direct PUBG Series for Netflix

Donald Glover will star in a Netflix live-action series based on the video game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and he and his brother Stephen Glover will write and direct it, Variety reports. The show draws on the battle royale format in which 100 players drop into a shrinking battleground and fight until one survivor remains, according to the game's official description. Plot specifics for the series have not been released.

PUBG is one of the titles that popularized the battle royale genre, in which a large field of players competes on a map that contracts over time, forcing confrontations until a single player or team is left. Netflix has not said when filming or release will begin.

Donald Glover and Stephen Glover have worked together previously; Variety reported the writing and directing assignment for the series. Netflix declined to give a premiere window or episode count.

Other television projects in development include Bosch: Start of Watch, a prequel to the Prime Video drama, which MGM+ says follows 26-year-old Harry Bosch in his earliest days as a rookie cop in Los Angeles. Cameron Monaghan plays Bosch and Omari Hardwick plays veteran officer Eli Bridges. The series begins Jan. 10 on MGM+.

Prime Video's dark comedy Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone has added eight cast members, including Patricia Clarkson, Elizabeth Marvel, Sean Astin, Annaleigh Ashford and Felix Solis, according to Variety. Penn Badgley was previously announced as Ern Cunningham, who attends a family reunion and becomes trapped there with relatives during a snowstorm. The series is based on Benjamin Stevenson's novel of the same name; Chris Walley, Daniella Garcia and Eliza Bennett also join the cast.