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Battlefield 6 may be winning the battle for FPS franchise supremacy following a record-breaking launch earlier this month, but Activision's old faithful Call Of Duty may be about to land a decisive blow in the war. Following last month's news that a Call Of Duty live-action movie is in the works at Paramount, today Deadline is reporting that the studio has landed two major names to bring the iconic shooter to the big screen: Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan and multi-hyphenate filmmaker Peter Berg (Lone Survivor).
Having previously collaborated on four-time Oscar nominee Hell Or High Water and chilly heartland epic Wind River, Sheridan and Berg are set to co-write Call Of Duty together, with Berg — who most recently turned his directorial hand to American Primeval — also serving as director on the movie. According to Deadline, Paramount execs set their sights on Berg and Sheridan some time ago, which should really come as little surprise: not only are the duo prolific writers and world builders on screens both big and small already, but having between them tackled the likes of Lioness, Sicario, and the aforementioned Lone Survivor, the pair have form when it comes to handling geopolitical thrillers, *ahem* modern warfare, and a bullet-spraying, bone-crunching firefight or two.
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We don't know at this stage whether Sheridan and Berg will be adapting one of Activision's already pretty cinematic shooters with their Call Of Duty movie or if they'll be carving their own path while honouring the franchise's reputation for thrusting fans into immersive, kinetic military campaigns set across the globe. But what we do know is that bringing creatives of Taylor Sheridan and Peter Berg's calibre aboard is a major statement of intent from Paramount and Activision, and if this project had our curiosity before, then it's certainly got our attention now. Watch this space for more COD intel coming our way in the weeks and months ahead.