{"id":66909,"date":"2014-07-13T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=66909"},"modified":"2014-07-13T12:26:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T10:26:24","slug":"thief-heading-to-the-silver-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/66909-thief-heading-to-the-silver-screen","title":{"rendered":"Thief heading to the silver screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A film version of the stealth-action game Thief is in the works, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is being backed by production companies Vertigo and Prime Universe, and is being produced by\u00a0Adrian Askarieh and Roy Lee &#8211; the duo behind the\u00a0Deus Ex film project.\u00a0Askarieh is also responsible from the 2007 film version of Hitman, while\u00a0Vertigo is best known for the licensed film adaptation of The Lego Movie.<\/p>\n<p>The Thief video game released for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, and PC on 28 February 2014, and received decidedly above-average (read 7\/10) scores from the international critics.<\/p>\n<p>Would you watch the Thief movie? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/of_3FxnsCZc?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracking-board.com\/tb-exclusive-gem-collectors-beware-a-thief-movie-is-in-development\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracking Board<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/66699-ultra-cool-gaming-pc-cases.html\">Ultra-cool gaming PC cases<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/66749-japan-wants-to-build-a-giant-gundam-robot.html\">Japan wants to build a giant Gundam robot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/66733-playing-video-games-is-like-taking-heroin.html\">Playing video games is like taking heroin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, Thief will be turned into a movie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":66911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5619,21,2208],"class_list":["post-66909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-game-movie","tag-headline","tag-thief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}