Call Of Duty To Receive The Movie Treatment As Paramount Inks Deal With Microsoft

Make like a 90s or early 2000s action movie over the top with a large quantity of cheese and I'm in🤓
I don't like all the gritty realistic action films of today they literally ruined James bond doing that!!🧑‍💻

Will Nicki Minaj be playing herself?

So there's two ways this can go.

They give it to Michael Bay, which perfectly suits the over the top, silly summer blockbuster film type stuff that COD leans in to with its marketing. Which is fine, those are fun.

...Or they go the weird route and try to make it a mix of slow political drama with tiny bursts of action here and there. Considering it's Paramount and they seem addicted to weird choices, it's very likely we're getting the latter option.

Either way, this will be uh... interesting.

The call of duty license is clearly just for name value. I bet they had a military movie all lined up and someone in marketing suggested sticking a licensed ip on it. There really isn't a call of duty story that demands the movie treatment.

There is no point getting the CoD IP to make a normal action/war film and I say this as someone who prefers the more "grounded" CoD campaign.

It should basically be the successor to Fast/Furious franchise. Try and keep some grounding but just go nuts with it.

However good or bad this film turns out to be, or whatever direction they decide to take it in, I bet that you could make the exact same film and not call it Call of Duty and it would just come and go, whereas sticking the Call of Duty name on it guarantees that people will turn up to see it in droves. Which is really, really sad if you ask me. It's smart marketing if nothing else, I suppose.

About time... as long as it get's a theatrical realease, I'm not wasting my time on straight to VHS movies

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Call of Duty seems ripe for the Hollywood Movie treatment - after all it is a more Hollywood action movie take on War than the reality of War. Its that Rambo like style where a single person (or very small squad) can take on massive armies with all the Combat vehicles at their disposal and still 'win'.

Its ALWAYS had Hollywood style scripts with Hollywood style set-pieces and Hollywood style big Stunts/explosions/spectacle so why not make a CoD Hollywood movie.

I doubt I'd pay to watch a CoD movie, but then I wouldn't pay to watch Uncharted, Last of Us, Witcher, Halo, Doom, Tomb Raider or ANY movie, not necessarily a Movie based on a Game (that was inspired by Band of Brothers and Hollywood Action movies).

I don't think its a silly idea, like trying to turn some IPs into TV/Film when the Game is more about Game-play than story, character arcs, etc.

Not that I play CoD but this seems like it should have Jason Statham in it and bonus points if he is wearing a silly uniform.

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I don't know how to feel about this. CoD has great campaigns for story and action....but will it translate to a movie? Like someone already mentioned if it's an 80's/90's action movie then yes....but modern age I'm not sure. They need to go R rating on the movie even though 12 year olds are a massive player base. F them kid's I say.

They should have done this way back. There’s no doubt I’d go to cinema to watch it. Suppose I’m probably an absolute sucker but it’s COD so could be good if done right.

@abe_hikura Lol. Tell that to the same Paramount that bought the rights to do a Halo TV show only to do a generic Sci fi show with some Halo set pieces...

I feel like an OG modern warfare movie would go hard. But really I feel like COD is like Minecraft in the sense that it doesn't actually matter what they do. It would be pretty hard to "screw up" a COD movie. Like critics might dislike it, but the general audience would just want an action movie. It was like this with the live action Transformers movie. All the general audience cared about was a dumb summer action flick that entertained them long enough to be worth it.

Oh wait. I just realized this is Paramount. Why'd they even buy COD rights? Is Hasbro mad at them or something? Just do another G.I. Joe movie (but hey, if we're getting an USA military industrial complex movie verse that leads to crossover with G.I.Joe and COD well I'd watch that, and then I'd... watch other people use the Duke skin (I don't play COD)).

Call of Duty could make a great movie IMO. I'd certainly prefer they take a leaf from Treyarch above all else, but even if they only use the title to sell tickets, if they do this right, it could be one hell of a good movie.