Headshot. In the middle of a promotional campaign for the launch of his ZeroZeroZero series, Stefano Sollima revealed where the adaptation of the Call of Duty video game announced in 2018 was. That is to say, not very far. At the microphone of the Italian media Bad Taste, the director of Sicario 2: Soldado and Gomorra explains that the film "has not really moved forward. We wrote the screenplay with Scott Silver , the screenwriter of Joker and the idea of cinematically expanding the universe of Call of Duty is no longer (for the moment) an industrial priority of the Activision group ... ". "He stayed in the limbo of" now we will see " ..."
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Activision Blizzard Studios, the film production structure of the video game publisher Activision, had launched this project two years ago and chose Stefano Sollima to stage it. The director had then revealed that he hoped to recruit Chris Pine (Star Trek) and Tom Hardy (Mad Max) to be the headliners of his film.
Since 2015, Activision Blizzard Studios has been trying to create a cinematic universe for its large licenses, with more or less success. The animated series Skylanders Academy on Netflix ended after three seasons, the film Call of Duty is at a standstill but the studio has announced that it will produce animated series on the Diablo and Overwatch licenses, which are also scheduled for broadcast via Netflix. .