Helldivers Devs Hope the movie recruits some A-List Cannon Fodder

Earlier this month, Sony revealed that it plans to make live-action movies Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers. The latter is a cooperative shooter space marines fighting aliens, and it’s not uncommon for sci-fi war movies to have big stars: yours Tom CruiseChris Pratts, and the like. If it was the executives of the developer Arrowhead Game Studios, he said that the film would indeed bring some big names… and then have them all. die horribly.

Arrowhead recently held a Q&A on the Helldivers Discord, and some players had questions about the movie. When asked by a player, CEO Shams Jorjani said that the studio “hopes for as many A-list actors as possible, as long as they all get killed right away.” After the announcement of the film, fans made joke fantasy castings that included Pratt, Jack Black and Adam Sandler as non-descript creatures or marines from the game, such as a Titan Bile. Jorjani’s comment has since spurred the players on keep running with the jokeSo now stars like Sean Bean, Aaron Paul, and Dwayne Johnson have been added to the cast mix. Do you have a star you want to see in this movie? Tell us in the comments!

Less jokingly, Jorjani told another player that Arrowhead was kept in the loop about “a few” things on the Helldivers movie But he and CCO Johan Pilestedt think the studio’s involvement in the film should only go so far. On Twitter, Pilestedt recently explained the developers “are not people from Hollywood, and we do not know what it takes to make a movie. So we do not, and we should not, have the last word”. The amount of input game developers have on an adaptation varies: creators of The last of us and League of Legends they are very involved in those shows, while others have less cooking in the kitchen.

When it comes to the quality of the finished product, that also varies, and there is no hard science to determine how much input the creator makes for a success in the eyes of newcomers and longtime fans. It sounds like the Helldivers The film is currently in its early stages, although Sony go ahead with do But given these influences of the gamesit feels like you need it try to misfit them.

(via VG247)

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