Is it possible to make movies anymore without having ten year plans to connect six different releases to each other? Apparently not.
Activision are jumping on the Marvel bandwagon by trying to create a connected cinematic universe, because of course they are.
Speaking to The Guardian, Stacey Sher and Nick van Dyk, who are co-presidents of Activision Blizzard Studios, revealed that a Call of Duty movie was already deep into production and could come out as early as next year. Scripts are being written but it won’t have much to do with the games and is instead going for the same “tone”. So every action movie, then.
On what the movies will be like, Dyk said that they will “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.”
I suddenly feel very cold and scared.
Adding to that, Sher said that a CoD cinematic universe has been in the pipeline for a long time:
“[they have been] plotted out many years […] 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.”
Seemingly aware that it looks like they’re trying to force a cinematic universe overnight, Sher said they’re trying to organically create movies that have something to say:
“If you look at Marvel, they started working when you had Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, and real film-makers on board as well. What I think made The Avengers so great was the writing and directing. You cared about those characters. If you just chase the empty blockbuster, and have nothing to say in the genre, forget about it.”
Call me a cynic, but I think this is going to end in tears.
Call of Duty is one of the most polarising video game franchises around today. Backlash to the reveal of Infinite Warfare and subsequently poor sales have put the series on the rocks over the last year, though it isn’t exactly in jeopardy. A reported return to World War II won’t stop people from hating it and not paying for cinema tickets, either.
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