ARC Raiders and The Finals are getting movie and TV adaptations
Chernin Entertainment will produce film and TV versions of Embark Studios' hit shooters ARC Raiders and The Finals, Nexon and Chernin announced Monday. No titles, cast, formats or release dates have been announced.
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What happened
Chernin Entertainment will produce film and TV adaptations of ARC Raiders and The Finals, two hit shooters from Nexon's Embark Studios, the companies announced Monday, Variety reported. No titles, cast, formats or release dates were announced.
The deal: Chernin is the scripted film and TV label of The North Road Company, which Peter Chernin founded in 2022. It was picked from a competitive field of studios and producers seeking the rights, the companies said. Embark's creative teams will work closely with Chernin, said Patrick Söderlund, Embark's CEO and Nexon's executive chairman.
The games: ARC Raiders launched in October 2025. Players scavenge a future Earth overrun by deadly machines called ARC while fending off rival players. Nexon says it has sold more than 16 million copies and topped 700,000 players at once across platforms in its first two weeks. It won Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards 2025. The Finals is a free-to-play shooter set on a virtual game show with destructible arenas. Nexon says it has drawn more than 30 million players in three years.
What’s next
ARC Raiders' biggest update yet, Frozen Trail, is set for Oct. 8. A new season of The Finals starts Oct. 20, Nexon said.
More context
The producer: Chernin Entertainment, founded in 2009, has co-produced the Planet of the Apes reboot films, Fear Street and the horror hit Backrooms, Polygon said. The companies say Backrooms grossed more than $400 million worldwide. Chernin is also co-producing a Mega Man adaptation with Capcom for Netflix, Polygon reported.
What they said: "Nexon and Embark have created visually stunning, atmospheric worlds that contain countless stories to tell," said David Ready, Chernin's president of film. Söderlund called the deal "the next big step" in growing both games into "transmedia experiences."
Early days: An Embark executive producer told Polygon in September that talks to take ARC Raiders to other media were in an "early phase." Polygon said that suggests the projects are likely still far off.
5 listed sources
- Variety (Jennifer Maas), Oct 5, 2026
- GamesBeat, Oct 5, 2026
- Polygon (Elijah Gonzalez), Oct 5, 2026
- The Verge (Jay Peters), Oct 5, 2026
- Sourcing note: Entertainment trade and gaming press. Game sales, player counts and Chernin's box office figures are company-supplied.
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Editorial sourcing notes
The deal was announced by Nexon and Chernin Entertainment on Oct. 5, 2026, and reported first by Variety. Sales, player counts and box office figures come from the companies' announcement as carried by GamesBeat; they have not been independently verified. No titles, formats, writers, cast or release dates have been announced.
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