- Paramount Television bought the rights
- Production company Anonymous Content will be partnering with the studio on the project
- Spotlight producer Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta serving as executive producers
- Michael Sugar talks about the reasoning to go for a BF adaptation:
"Battlefield has a tremendous built-in, engaged fan base, making it a highly coveted piece of IP primed for long-form adaptation," said Sugar. It's those magical two letters, "IP" — shorthand for intellectual property — that have become the coin of the realm for Hollywood, which has been betting for some time that the key to its future is audience familiarity. (For companies like Marvel and Disney, that's been working; for DC and Warner Bros., not so much.)"
http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/11/12153344/battlefield-video-game-tv-series-paramount
Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1
