Helldivers Movie Lands November 2027 Release Date With Jason Momoa Set to Star

Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions person picked Aquaman histrion Jason Momoa to prima successful their upcoming Helldivers movie.

As reported by Deadline and confirmed by Sony, the enactment movie regular is present acceptable to pb the adaptation of Arrowhead Game Studios’ fashionable video crippled franchise. With the casting update comes quality that Sony is charging guardant successful hopes of dropping into theaters November 10, 2027.

Jason Momoa. Photo by Earl Gibson III/Deadline via Getty Images.

Momoa made a sanction for himself arsenic Khal Drogo successful Season 1 of Game of Thrones and has transitioned to go a starring sanction since. In summation to playing Aquaman for the DC beingness for immoderate years, helium besides appeared successful movies similar 2021’s Dune and Fast X, portion besides serving arsenic the pb for the Apple TV+ show, See. Gaming fans volition besides admit him from his portion successful past year’s A Minecraft Movie. Details astir however precisely his quality fits into the Helldivers movie, however, are unclear.

Additional casting and crippled details stay nether fastener and cardinal for now, but we bash cognize immoderate of the originative squad handling the project. As announced past December, Fast & Furious seasoned Justin Lin has been tapped to nonstop the Helldivers movie. The Hollywood Reporter reported the aforesaid period that It and Annabelle writer Gary Dauberman penned the film’s script.

On the accumulation side, we cognize that Hutch Parker is successful the mix, with PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash besides attached. Lin is besides progressive arsenic a shaper via his Perfect Storm Entertainment banner.

Sony announced its plans to present a Helldivers movie pursuing the astonishment occurrence of Helldivers 2. The sequel, a third-person shooter that sees players radical up and combat to support Super Earth from elephantine bogs, cyborgs, and more, launched successful February 2024 and became PlayStation’s fastest-selling crippled of each time.

As Sony locks down Momoa arsenic its prima and Lin arsenic its director, it seems prep for the Helldivers movie is good underway. While we hold for its November 2027 merchandise date, you tin work up connected the caller casting update for PlayStation's upcoming God of War show. You tin besides support up with the latest Helldivers 2 update, which yet takes players to Cyberstan.

Photo by Earl Gibson III/Deadline via Getty Images.

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