Thief Video Game Movie Adaptation in the Works

Garrett coming to the big screen.

By Michael Martin

Straight Up Films has acquired the rights to adapt Square Enix’s Thief video game into a movie.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Thief’s screenplay will be written by Adam Mason and Simon Boyes (Misconduct, Not Safe for Work) and will be set in a “dark fantasy world where a master thief tries to restore freedom denied by a magic-wielding tyrant,” which is similar to the plot in Square Enix’s 2014 reboot of Thief.

The Los Angeles-based Straight Up Films will co-produce Thief alongside Square Enix and Source Rock’s Khalid Jones. No director or actors have been revealed for the film at this time.

The original first-person stealth adventure Thief launched in 1998 and was developed by Looking Glass Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. Eidos published two sequels, Thief II: The Metal Age and Thief: Deadly Shadows, before Eidos Montreal developed the Thief reboot.

Michael Martin is a full-time freelance writer with way too many pop culture mash-up t-shirts to count. Follow him on Twitter @Bizarro_Mike.

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