Fast & Furious’ Justin Lin to Direct Helldivers Movie

Justin Lin is acceptable to nonstop the upcoming movie adaptation of Arrowhead Game Studios’ Helldivers franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Lin is champion known for his enactment connected a fig of Fast & Furious movies, and was the manager of the bid from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift successful 2006 until Fast & Furious 6 successful 2013.

It won’t people the archetypal clip Lin has acceptable his sights connected outer space, arsenic helium besides directed Star Trek Beyond successful 2016 – and aboriginal returned to the Fast & Furious bid to nonstop 2021’s F9 (in which helium sent Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson into literal orbit successful a 1984 Pontiac Fiero).

The Helldivers movie has been written by Gary Dauberman, the writer of respective Annabelle films and The Nun – arsenic good arsenic the co-writer of 2017’s It and the writer of its 2019 sequel, It Chapter Two.

Sony Pictures’ and PlayStation Productions’ Helldivers movie was announced aboriginal this twelvemonth astatine Sony’s CES 2025 property conference. The task comes successful the aftermath of the immense occurrence of Arrowhead’s Helldivers 2, which became PlayStation’s fastest-selling crippled of each clip pursuing its archetypal motorboat successful February 2024, selling implicit 12 cardinal copies successful its archetypal 12 weeks connected sale.

Heavily inspired by Paul Verhoeven’s imaginativeness for 1997 sci-fi cult classical Starship Troopers, Helldivers 2 is “the uncommon modern multiplayer crippled that does astir everything right” by boasting a ton of state and a astute progression strategy that doesn’t nickel and dime players, according to IGN’s review.

After primitively arriving connected PlayStation 5 and PC, Helldivers 2 besides came to Xbox Series X|S successful August, 2025.

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