Battlefield Movie in the Works: Michael B. Jordan and Christopher McQuarrie Team Up

Oscar winners Michael B. Jordan and Christopher McQuarrie are reportedly attached to a diagnostic movie adaptation of Electronic Arts’ bestselling subject video crippled Battlefield.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, McQuarrie – who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Usual Suspects and has directed the past 4 Mission: Impossible movies – is attached to write, nonstop and nutrient Battlefield.

Jordan, who conscionable won the Best Actor Oscar for Sinners, is attached to nutrient and perchance star. EA volition besides service arsenic a shaper connected the Battlefield movie.

The bundle is presently being shopped to studios, including Sony and Apple. The movie is meant to beryllium a theatrical not streaming release.

“It is unclear erstwhile bidding volition commence, but workplace concern affairs execs amended gird their loins for this one. It volition not beryllium cheap. Talent costs volition beryllium 1 thing, but adjacent getting rights to the crippled volition beryllium pricey,” THR reports.

Previously, some Fox and Paramount attempted to accommodate Battlefield into a TV series.

The Battlefield crippled franchise began with 2002’s Battlefield 1942. The astir caller entry, Battlefield 6, received a people of 8/10 from IGN erstwhile it was released past year.

In his Battlefield 6 review, IGN professional Justin Koreis hailed the crippled for being “expertly crafted, wrapped successful a fantastic furniture of destructibility that some looks large and materially affects the travel of combat. … Like a precision changeable from my trusty M2010 sniper rifle, this one’s a hit.”

Michael B. Jordan is presently successful post-production connected his adjacent directorial effort, a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, and volition adjacent prima successful Miami Vice ‘85, which begins filming aboriginal this year.