A Call of Duty movie is finally happening at Paramount – here are my 5 biggest hopes for the video game adaptation | TechRadar
With Paramount confirming a CoD movie is coming, here's what I'd like to see in the video game adaptation. The studio, which recently closed a massive merger with Skydance, inked a deal with Microsoft-owned video game publisher Activision to turn the long-running franchise into a live action movie, with Variety reporting that the pact could extend to further movies and even TV shows to bulk up one of the best streaming services, Paramount+ – CoDCU anyone?Prime Video’s God of War series has locked in key details, but 3 brutal things still need to happen after its creative overhaul · Now, that sounds worryingly close to the tactic employed by the disappointing Assassins Creed movie to me, which got so bogged down in furthering the franchise lore, it failed to deliver on the free-running, historical fun gamers love. Whatever direction Paramount takes with CoD, they’d be wise to pull on what’s come before, whether that’s the visceral WW2 games, the trippy Black Ops series or the action-thriller vibes of Modern Warfare.Over the years we’ve seen the likes of Josh Duhamel (Pierson, WWII), Idris Elba (Truck, Modern Warfare 3), Ice Cube (Bowman, Black Ops), Jason Statham (Waters, Call of Duty), Helena Bonham Carter (Madame Mirela, Black Ops 4: Zombies), Gary Oldman (Reznov, World at War and Black Ops) and Kit Harrington (Kotch, Infinite Warfare) all appearing in the games and it would be great to see some of these actors return, whether that’s reprising iconic roles or even in a cameo capacity. It’d be particularly exciting to see Oldman come back to a role many consider the best performance in a CoD game, but that would all depend on the timeline the film opts for.Personally, I think a Call of Duty movie needs to be exactly the sort of big, dumb fun that Michael Bay excels at. The macho military side of the Transformers franchise screams CoD, and the director has proven he has what it takes to tell a dramatic military story with the visceral 13 Hours.