Netflix identifies Donald Glover to write, direct, and star in PUBG series

Like Fortnite, PUBG is primarily a multiplayer battle royale game in which players, alone or on a team of four, skirmish with up to 100 other players in last-man-standing deathmatches. PUBG was one of the more influential games in the battle royale genre and the game of 2017. It became so successful so quickly that, after its success, Epic rejiggered its soon-to-be generation-defining version, Fortnite, to focus more closely on battle royales and released Fortnite Battle Royale as a standalone game to compete with PUBG. Fortnite would eventually overtake PUBG as the genre’s gold standard—thanks in large part to all the dance moves the game introduced to nine-year-olds. 

The news arrives on the heels of Netflix killing a deal to adapt a bunch of Xbox games because it fired all the executives working on said deal.