Having originally announced their intentions in 2015, Activision Blizzard Studios are pushing forward with their Call of Duty Expanded Universe.
Speaking to The Guardian, co-president Stacey Sher stated that: “We have plotted out many years. We put together this group of writers to talk about where we were going. There’ll be a film that feels more like Black Ops, the story behind the story. The Modern Warfare series looks at what it’s like to fight a war with the eyes of the world on you. And then maybe something that is more of a hybrid, where you are looking at private, covert operations, while a public operation is going on”.
Fellow co-president, Nick van Dyk added that: “It’s going to have the same sort of high-adrenaline, high-energy aesthetic as the game, but it’s not a literal adaptation. It’s a much more broad and inclusive, global in scope … a big, tentpole Marvel-esque movie”.
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Outside of Call of Duty, there are numerous other video game film adaptations on the horizon, including The Division, Tomb Raider, Splinter Cell and Rampage as well as a potential Assassin’s Creed television series.
With rough drafts of a script already written, if everything goes as planned, the first entry in the Call of Duty cinematic universe should launch in 2018. Let us know your thoughts on the idea below…
Originally published April 6, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
