Helldivers Devs Hope The Movie Gets A-List Cannon Fodder

Earlier this month, Sony revealed that it was planning to make live-action movies Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers. The latter is a co-op shooter naval air fighting aliens, and it’s not uncommon for sci-fi war movies to have big stars: yours Tom CruiseChris Pratts, and so on. If it was working at Arrowhead Game Studios, it is said that the video would bring big names… to die badly.

Arrowhead recently did a Q&A on Helldivers Discord, and other players had questions about the video. When asked by one actor, CEO Shams Jorjani said the studio “expects as many A-list actors as possible, as long as they are all brutally killed at the same time.” After announcing the film, fans created a fantasy comedy that included Pratt, Jack Black, and Adam Sandler as unknown creatures or marines from the game, like the Bile Titan. Jorjani’s comment has encouraged the players keep running with the jokeso now stars like Sean Bean, Aaron Paul, and Dwayne Johnson have been added to the mix. Do you have a star that you would like to see enter the film? Tell us in the comments!

Jokingly, Jorjani told another player that Arrowhead is reserved for “other” games. Helldivers movie. But he and CCO Johan Pilestedt think the studio’s involvement in the film should only go so far. On Twitter, Pilestedt he recently explained that the producers “are not Hollywood people, and we don’t know what it takes to make a movie. Therefore we do not, and should not, have the final say. ” The extent to which entry-level game developers are involved in change varies: developers a The Last of Us and League of Legends they are more involved in the shows, while others have fewer cooks in the kitchen.

When it comes to the quality of the finished products, they also differ, and there is no hard science in knowing how much a producer has to make in order to succeed in the eyes of newcomers and old fans. It sounds like Helldivers The film is currently in its early stages, like Sony though they go forward and do. But to avoid this sports’ influenceslooks like you should try it by changing them incorrectly.

(via VG247)

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