As we all know, Hollywood hasn’t got the best of track records when it comes to adapting video games. However, Fox is now hoping to buck that trend on the small screen with a television series based upon Electronic Arts’ first-person-shooter Battlefield: Bad Company, which will take the form of “an hourlong action comedy” and is being produced by John Eisendrath (Alias), Sony TV and Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions.
According to Deadline, “Bad Company features the main characters from the game [and] follows four renegade soldiers as they exit military life and enter the private sector. But trouble is never far behind as they realize their commanding officer had used them to further the ends of a shadow unit within the government and now wants them dead to cover his tracks.”
Bad Company has been written by Eisendrath, who will also serve as executive producer alongside Happy Madison’s Doug Robinson and EA’s Patrick Bach and Patrick O’Brien. It will mark the first hourlong from Happy Madison Productions, whose previous TV credits include the sitcoms Rules of Engagement and Breaking In.
Originally published October 9, 2012. Updated April 10, 2018.
