James Wan will executive produce a television adaptation of one of this year's most popular independent video games, Pacific Drive from creator Cassandra Dracott and developer Ironwood Studios. According to the Variety exclusive, Wan's company, Atomic Monster, will produce the series, and Wan will executive produce alongside Michael Clear and Rob Hackett.
Pacific Drive is a first-person survival game with strong sci-fi elements that places the player in an abandoned zone in Washington state. Traveling on foot or in a station wagon, players must scavenge the environment while trying to avoid strange anomalies and other supernatural entities.
As they traverse the landscape, they open up more areas on the map and begin to piece together the mysteries of the zone, which is portrayed as a fictionalized version of the Olympic Peninsula set in 1998. Unlike the real peninsula, the game's "Olympic Exclusion Zone" has been completely abandoned.
Described as a "retropunk-style" game, Pacific Drive doubles as a base-building game, allowing players to customize and upgrade their vehicles in a special garage and it definitely veers into survival horror territory despite having more sci-fi roots.
Little else was revealed about the television adaptation itself apart from Wan's involvement. Pacific Drive was recently nominated for Best Debut Indie Game at this year's Game Awards.
Gaming is more popular than ever these days and this announcement is just one of many planned video game adaptations in the works. Until Dawn is getting a highly-anticipated film adaptation in 2025 and there are plans to develop games like Outlast and Dead by Daylight into horror movies as well.
Meanwhile, Wan and Atomic Monster are staying plenty busy with dozens of projects lined up. The horror filmmaker returns to produce the final movie in The Conjuring franchise, The Conjuring: Last Rites, which has wrapped filming and is set to be released in theaters on September 5, 2025.
Atomic Monster produced the recent Peacock horror series Teacup and is also producing upcoming 2025 films The Monkey and M3GAN 2.0.
Those interested in checking out Pacific Drive can currently purchase the game for PlayStation 5 or Windows.