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curl-6 on 05 September 2025
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Ryuu96 said:
curl-6 said:

Dumb move from Activision, the guy's one the greatest filmmakers working today and if anyone could make a Call of Duty film actually good, it'd be him.

It'll probably be crap now, if Activision are insisting on control.

Saving Private Ryan, also the creator of Medal of Honour, which actually directly led to Call of Duty being a thing in the first place because people from that team left to form Infinity Ward and created Call of Duty as a direct rival to Medal of Honour. Legendary filmmaker who is a big fan of Call of Duty but Activision seems to think CoD is Mona Lisa or something, Lmao.

I can understand sometimes not wanting to give up creative control but come on, it's Call of Duty...I can't possibly think of a way that Steven Spielberg could damage the Call of Duty brand, and the Paramount film is likely to be dogshit anyway, at least Spielberg has a high chance of making it an actually good film. What were they so worried about? They've already got multiple different CoDs with multiple different storylines, they've got grounded CoDs and futuristic CoDs to Zombies! There's whacky shit in the Campaigns and fucking Beavis and Butthead in the MP.

Yeah the guy's proven himself over and over again to be a master of action cinema, from the aforementioned Saving Private Ryan to the likes of Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Last Crusade, Jurassic Park, even Munich for a more topical military thriller type deal.

And yeah, it's not like the series was some bastion of artistic integrity to begin with. Utterly baffling decision.