Call of Duty Movie: Yellowstone's Taylor Sheridan in Talks to Script, Peter Berg Poised to Direct

Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is successful talks to publication and Lone Survivor’s Peter Berg is adjacent a woody to nonstop Paramount’s live-action Call of Duty movie.

The quality comes via The Hollywood Reporter. Sheridan made headlines precocious past week erstwhile quality broke that helium was parting ways with Paramount+ – wherever he’s made deed bid similar Yellowstone and its spinoffs, Tulsa King, Mayor of Kingstown, Lioness, Landman, and Lawman: Bass Reeves – for a billion-dollar woody with NBCUniversal.

(Paramount, nether the caller ownership of Skydance, reportedly didn’t adjacent fuss to marque an connection to support their hit-maker Sheridan.)

Paramount Pictures and Activision announced successful September that they were teaming for a live-action Call of Duty movie.

It’s inactive unclear which clip play the movie volition picture arsenic the crippled franchise, which began successful 2003, has covered everything from World War II to the contiguous time to the future. The adjacent game, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, is owed retired successful November.

Activation has been actively processing a Call of Duty movie since 2009 erstwhile they filed for a trademark for the film. In 2013, Activation’s then-CEO Bobby Kotick threw acold h2o connected the thought of adapting Call of Duty into a movie, saying "movies based connected video games seldom delight devoted fans and could taint the brand."

But successful 2016, Activation Blizzard Studios was formed with co-presidents Stacey Sher and Nick van Dyk outlining their plans for a Marvel-style CoD cinematic beingness successful 2017.

Sicario 2: Soldado’s Stefano Sollima was attached to nonstop a Call of Duty movie successful 2018, with plans for a sequel already acceptable successful question astatine the clip with Black Panther’s Joe Robert Cole attached to script. Obviously, nary of those plans ever materialized.

For much CoD coverage, work up connected the past large gaming rivalry betwixt Call of Duty and Battlefield and larn however to play the Call of Duty games successful chronological order.