Later this year, Vanguard players will be immersed in a fully integrated, new Call of Duty: Warzone experience featuring a brand-new map, new gameplay and new experiences. While Zombies fans will experience a signature undead gameplay experience, marking a franchise-first Zombies crossover for Call of Duty. Multiplayer features 20 maps on day one at launch. Players will witness the origins of Special Forces as they change the face of history, forming Task Force One in a sprawling World War II narrative campaign spanning the Eastern and Western fronts of Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa. This news was first reported by Variety.Vanguard delivers the complete package to Call of Duty fans across Campaign, online Multiplayer and Zombies co-operative modes. We'll be sure to keep you posted as more details on the projects are made available. Neither of the movies have release dates set at this time.
But Joe Robert Cole did just direct All Day and a Night for Netflix, so maybe he could take a crack at it if all goes well? Just a thought. At the present time, there is no indication on who could wind up in the director's chair for the sequel, should it actually move forward. The Call of Duty games have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide, meaning that there is a potentially massive audience to tap into for these movies. It just feels like there are a lot of pieces of this puzzle that haven't yet fallen into place for one movie, let alone a sequel to that movie.
Especially considering that the gaming company, who launched their own movie and TV studio to develop these projects, hasn't partnered with a major studio yet for distribution. But as far as video game franchises go, it doesn't get much bigger than Call of Duty, so if anything has a shot at breaking the curse and becoming a big franchise, this may be it. Few ever become huge hits and virtually none ever do very well with critics. Writer Kiernan Fitzgerald recently indicated that they're shooting for an early 2019 shoot.Īnother element well-worth mentioning is that video game movies, up to this point, have been a tricky thing for Hollywood to crack. As for the first Call of Duty movie, Stefano Sollima ( Sicario 2) has been attached to direct. So it's not as though they've tapped some scrappy up-and-comer for this project.
Joe Robert Cole is at least in part responsible for one of the biggest superhero movies ever, as Black Panther made $1.3 billion at the global box office and could be the first comic book movie to ever score a Best Picture nomination. This is highly unusual for what seems like it's going to be a massive production, given the nature of the game series, which have always centered on war, be it of the past or the future. Word is the studio wants a script ready to go for a follow-up as soon as the first movie enters production. Yet, the studio has commissioned a script for Call of Duty 2.Īccording to a new report, Joe Robert Cole, the writer behind Marvel's Black Panther, has been hired by Activision Blizzard Studios to pen a Call of Duty sequel. What is a bit strange is that the first movie hasn't even entered production yet, nor have they announced any cast members for the first installment. Sequels are pretty commonplace in Hollywood these days.
Activision seems confident that they're going to be able to turn Call of Duty into a successful movie franchise, as they're already working on a sequel to the upcoming movie adaptation of their popular video game series.