The Call of Duty movie is getting closer! For nearly 15 years, Hollywood has been trying to adapt Activision’s video game license to the cinema, which is simply the best-selling video game series in the United States for 16 years in a row and a huge global hit with more than 500 million copies sold worldwide since its release in 2003.
A project that’s been in the works for a long time, but recently made some big progress: Last September, a major deal was reached between publisher Activision and Paramount to produce a live-action Call of Duty movie, and today we’re getting the word out. term that the studio has chosen Peter Berg and Taylor Sheridan to develop this adaptation, which fans have been waiting for a long time.
action specialists
Exciting news, as both men have backgrounds in the world of action and military and detective fiction. Let us remind you that Peter Berg has directed films such as Blood and Tears, 22 Mile or recently the TV series American Dawn. He will also be responsible for directing Call of Duty, for which he will write the screenplay with Taylor Sheridan, creator of Yellowstone, and several other series for Paramount+, including Special Operations: Lioness, a special CIA program.
An expertise that will serve them well in the development of Call of Duty, which, remember, is a series of first-person shooter games focused on military campaigns. It was also announced that the film will take the signature elements that players have come to appreciate in the games, but will also expand the franchise to a whole new audience.
Proven cooperation
Longtime friends and frequent collaborators—Berg most notably created the excellent Wind River, directed by Sheridan, as well as Comanche, which earned the latter an Oscar nomination for best screenplay—the two filmmakers will also co-produce the feature with Activision and Paramount.
The news comes just days after Taylor Sheridan announced that she will be leaving the studio when her contract ends in 2028 to join NBCUniversal. But with the big deal that is Call of Duty, it looks like it’s not going to wait for its departure.
Before we discover Call of Duty on the big screen, it is on Netflix that we can find Peter Berg’s film. The latter recently wrapped filming on The Mosquito Bowl, an epic drama about four American football stars who enlist in the Marines after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Call of Duty, coming to theaters soon.
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