Nexon has signed Chernin Entertainment to develop film and television adaptations of ARC Raiders and The Finals, the two shooters from its Stockholm studio Embark. Chernin will act as lead producer on both properties, and Nexon says the company beat a competitive field of production houses and studios bidding for the rights, according to Nexon’s announcement.
What hasn’t been announced is almost everything a viewer would ask about. Nexon hasn’t said which game becomes a film, which becomes a series, or whether either gets both. There’s no director, writer, cast, distributor or release window, and the Korea Times reports that financial terms weren’t disclosed either. As IGN puts it, the projects are likely years away.
Who’s making them
Chernin Entertainment is the scripted film and TV label of Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company, which European studio Mediawan agreed to acquire in January. Its recent film slate includes Backrooms, which GamesBeat says grossed over $400 million worldwide on a $10 million budget, plus the Netflix releases The Last House and Apex. On television, it produces Apple TV’s See, Truth Be Told and Chief of War, and it recently signed a multi-year first-look film deal with Apple TV+.
Embark won’t hand the keys over entirely. Patrick Söderlund, CEO of Embark Studios and executive chairman of Nexon, said the studio’s creative teams will “work closely with Chernin” so that what defines both games carries into the new formats. He described the deal as a step towards “deeply integrated transmedia experiences”. David Ready, president of film at Chernin Entertainment, called the pair “ambitious global IP with the potential to become major franchises across film and television”.
Two very different worlds
The games share a developer but not a premise. ARC Raiders is an extraction shooter set on a future Earth overrun by hostile machines called ARC, where players scavenge as Raiders while fending off robots and each other. Since its October 2025 launch, it has sold more than 16 million copies, peaked at 250,000 concurrent players on Steam on day one and passed 700,000 concurrent players across platforms within two weeks. It also won Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards 2025, Online Game of the Year at the D.I.C.E. Awards and the multiplayer prize at the 2026 BAFTA Games Awards.
The Finals is a free-to-play shooter staged as a virtual combat game show, with arenas modelled on places such as Monaco and Las Vegas and server-side physics that let players flatten buildings mid-match. Nexon says it has passed 30 million registered players in three years.
The timing lines up with a busy month for both games. ARC Raiders’ Frozen Trail update, which Nexon calls its largest content update so far, is due on 8 October, and the next season of The Finals arrives on 20 October. Per IGN, Embark also plans to test a PvE mode in ARC Raiders this month, though the studio hasn’t committed to keeping it. That follows Embark’s recent move to make permanent bans the default for ARC Raiders cheaters.
The deal adds two more names to a crowded list of game adaptations in development, from Sony’s Helldivers movie to the wider Hollywood rush for video game films.
Is ARC Raiders getting a movie or a TV show?
Nexon hasn’t said. Chernin will develop film and TV projects based on both games, but no specific format has been assigned to either title yet.
When will the ARC Raiders and The Finals adaptations be released?
There’s no release date or window, and no cast, director or streaming partner has been named. Both projects are at an early development stage.
Is Embark Studios involved in the adaptations?
Yes. Nexon says Embark’s creative teams will work closely with Chernin Entertainment throughout development.
