The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, a documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January and will be available for streaming on Netflix in October, tells the story of Mats Steen, who died of a rare degenerative muscular disease at age 25. When Steen passed in 2014, his parents feared that their son had spent his life in isolation, only to discover that he'd built a network of friendships as Ibelin, the philandering nobleman rogue detective he spent years roleplaying as in World of Warcraft.
"The film takes us on a journey through the breadth of Mats Steen's adventurous online life, introducing us to Ibelin, his charismatic World of Warcraft persona, and underscores how community and soulful relationships can transcend the boundaries of the physical world," Netflix said.
