Live-Action Call of Duty Movie Is Finally Official After Paramount Strikes Deal With Activision, Top Gun: Maverick Mentioned as Guiding Star

22 years aft it began, the Call of Duty video crippled bid is yet getting a Hollywood movie, acknowledgment to a woody betwixt Activision and Paramount.

Both companies issued a associated connection successful which they said the concern “aims to bring the iconic Call of Duty beingness to beingness connected the large screen, delivering an unforgettable cinematic lawsuit for fans worldwide.”

Unfortunately we cognize thing of the movie itself, but it’s a live-action diagnostic film. There’s nary merchandise window, manager attached, oregon cast.

Call of Duty fans person for years wondered wherefore the crippled hasn’t had an authoritative adaptation, considering Hollywood’s emotion of warfare movies. Call of Duty itself is 1 of the biggest video crippled franchises of each time, with implicit 500 cardinal copies sold globally. A movie would payment from launching into an established assemblage and instant marque recognition.

Here’s the authoritative blurb from today’s announcement:

Under this milestone partnership, Paramount volition develop, produce, and administer a live-action diagnostic movie based connected Call of Duty, designed to thrill its monolithic planetary instrumentality basal by delivering connected the hallmarks of what fans emotion astir the iconic series, portion boldly expanding the franchise to wholly caller audiences. Both companies are committed to honoring the brand’s affluent communicative and distinctive style, promising an authentic and breathtaking acquisition for longtime fans and newcomers alike.

Here’s a punctuation from David Ellison, Chairman and CEO of Paramount, who said he’s a large Call of Duty instrumentality who’s enactment “countless” hours into the franchise implicit the years:

“As a lifelong instrumentality of Call of Duty this is genuinely a imagination travel true. From the archetypal Allied campaigns successful the archetypal Call of Duty, done Modern Warfare and Black Ops, I’ve spent countless hours playing this franchise that I perfectly love. Being entrusted by Activision and players worldwide to bring this bonzer storytelling beingness to the large surface is some an grant and a work that we don’t instrumentality lightly.

“We’re approaching this movie with the aforesaid disciplined, uncompromising committedness to excellence that guided our enactment connected Top Gun: Maverick, ensuring it meets the exceptionally precocious standards this franchise and its fans deserve. I tin committedness that we are resolute successful our ngo to present a cinematic acquisition that honors the bequest of this one-in-a-million marque — thrilling longtime fans of Call of Duty portion captivating a full caller generation.”

And here’s an further remark from Rob Kostich, President of Activision: “Throughout its history, Call of Duty has captured our imaginativeness with unthinkable enactment and aggravated stories that person brought millions of radical unneurotic from astir the world, and that absorption connected making unthinkable Call of Duty games remains unwavering.

“With Paramount, we person recovered a fantastic spouse who we volition enactment with to instrumentality that visceral, breathtaking enactment to the large surface successful a defining cinematic moment. The movie volition grant and grow upon what has made this franchise large successful the archetypal place, and we cannot hold to get started. Our shared extremity is rather elemental — to make an unforgettable blockbuster movie acquisition that our assemblage loves, and 1 that besides excites and inspires caller fans of the franchise.”

Paramount has signifier erstwhile it comes to successfully adapting video games. Its hugely fashionable Sonic movies person proved captious and commercialized hits, but it’s worthy noting Paramount besides made the Halo TV series, which was canceled aft Season 2.

And let’s retrieve that each we person present is quality of a partnership. Hollywood is littered with the bodies of adaptations that were announced but failed to go a world for immoderate reason. This is an important archetypal step, and possibly the astir promising archetypal measurement a Call of Duty movie has ever had, but this is acold from the extremity of the story.

Still, it's amusive to speculate astir what the Call of Duty movie mightiness look like. Will it spell down the OG Call of Duty way and archer a World War 2 story? Or volition it prime 1 of the stories already established by the Modern Warfare oregon Black Ops sub-brands? If so, volition we spot fashionable characters specified arsenic Price, Ghost, and Soap, oregon Mason, Woods, and Hudson? If we spot those characters, which actors volition play them?

The Call of Duty movie quality comes up of the important motorboat of Black Ops 7, which launches this November amid what is expected to beryllium stiff contention from rival first-person shooter Battlefield 6. To that end, Activision has U-turned connected goofy skins for Black Ops 7’s launch, and volition not diagnostic a transportation guardant enactment for cosmetics.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].