Call of Duty Movie to Take Place in the Modern Warfare Universe, Director Confirms

Paramount Pictures and Activision person confirmed the upcoming Call of Duty movie volition instrumentality spot successful its long-running Modern Warfare universe.

The unit down the upcoming video game-to-movie adaptation revealed the update arsenic portion of a Call of Duty successful Culture Panel astatine Fanatics Fest successful New York City contiguous (via Variety). Call of Duty movie manager and co-writer Peter Berg made an quality astatine the lawsuit to stock the news.

Berg and co-writer Taylor Sheridan's prime to acceptable their Call of Duty movie successful the Modern Warfare beingness whitethorn travel arsenic overmuch of a astonishment for immoderate fans, but it mightiness yet springiness america immoderate clues astir its yet-to-be-detailed plot. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the archetypal successful Activision's first-person shooter bid to present players to a, well, much modern instrumentality connected the franchise erstwhile it launched successful 2007. As it near down the mid-1900s battlefields established by erstwhile games, it besides brought on caller characters, specified arsenic Soap, Ghost, Captain Price, and bid villain Vladimir Makarov.

On the gaming broadside of things, Modern Warfare has spent the past 2 decades attempting to reinvent itself crossed six mainline entries, and adjacent a fewer remasters. The archetypal 3 games, which arrived passim the precocious 2000s and aboriginal 2010s, chiefly followed Task Force 141 arsenic they embarked connected globe-trotting missions, portion gaining (and losing) teammates on the way.

Activision and developer Infinity Ward took a interruption from the somewhat much grounded settings of Modern Warfare done the mid-2010s earlier delivering a full-fledged reboot with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019. It's expanded connected this section with returning characters and caller stories, with its adjacent entry, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, acceptable to motorboat for PC, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X | S October 23, 2026.

Why Paramount and Activision opted to footwear disconnected its Call of Duty movie ambitions with Modern Warfare alternatively of thing similar the Black Ops series, which precocious celebrated the merchandise of PlayStation ports for Black Ops 1 and 2, is unclear. Berg besides neglected to notation whether his adaptation volition retread events players whitethorn retrieve from the games oregon carve retired its ain country of the universe.

The Call of Duty movie has a merchandise day of June 30, 2028. Its crippled and formed stay a mystery, for now. While we hold for udpates, you tin spot what Berg erstwhile said astir radical who play video games.

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