I was going to chime in at that part as well.  It would seem veterans are good with working with something they are use to working with but creating their own company and then getting a game to market isn't a skillset most veterans have.  The complexity of going through the whole process of creating a game and getting to market isn't something that is inherited to a lot of people.  Most of these vets are probably good with one or 2 aspect of the process but not actually managing the whole process which is why they seem to struggle.  Maybe they need someone to manage the whole process and make sure they do not get behind and get a game to market on time and within budget.

I'm really curious on this ones performance, with Minecraft I was certain it would be a huge success, with CoD I'm less certain, it feels like it could go either way, will CoD fans come to cinema for it? Do they care enough about the CoD Campaign/Story? What will set it apart from other military films? Will name alone be enough to carry fans to audiences?

CoDs massive but I don't think a CoD film will have the same children swarming to cinema as Minecraft did or the meme factor, so it will largely rely on adults and if they care enough about the story of CoD. Will it just be another generic military action film? They should adapt the Black Ops line Imo, I would find the most interest in that one.

Right now I'm thinking it won't be as successful as Minecraft but still profitable.

OG Black Ops or OG Modern Warfare should be adapted, those stories were genuinely interesting, have great characters and you'd have the nostalgia hook. If they create an original CoD story and slap the CoD logo on top I doubt it will be anything interesting, Lol.

Metal Eden is out! Cyberpunk FPS with some inspirations of Doom. From the developers of Ruiner.

Inb4 the film is one of those "Kid is playing CoD and gets magically sucked into the world of CoD Multiplayer" and the kid is trying to survive and find a way out while Beavis and Butt-Head skinned MFs are shooting up Nicki Minaj skinned players. With his whacky Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle sidekicks voiced by 12 year olds.

Outside of The Last of Us, I don't recall the last time a video game adaptations story was inspired from the games themselves lol. I would love if they adapted the entirety of the original Modern Warfare trilogy into a single movie. I think it's possible. 

SCOOP: Perfect Dark was almost revived.

The game's developers were close to a deal with Take-Two to fund and publish the game following its cancellation by Xbox in July, sources say, but negotiations fell through, leading to layoffs at Crystal Dynamics last week. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) 2 September 2025 at 18:39

Take-Two was interested in funding and completing Perfect Dark, but the deal fell through at least in part because the companies were unable to come to terms over ownership of the franchise, sources tell Bloomberg News www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) 2 September 2025 at 18:44

Well, I think this certainly counters rumours that Perfect Dark was apparently in a complete mess and had almost no work done on it, if Take-Two were interested in funding the entire project and buying the IP straight off Microsoft under the same development team. Then that suggests to me that Take-Two saw something in it that Microsoft didn't and it wasn't in a complete disaster, sounds more like Microsoft greed strikes again.

Microsoft should have sold the IP to them, it's not like Microsoft will ever do anything useful with the IP anyway, it's going to remain dead, all Microsoft is doing is IP hoarding an IP they've destroyed and they could have prevented a studio from having to do mass layoffs and saved peoples jobs and they would have at least made some money back by selling the IP to Take-Two.

Lol. Microsoft Sucks.

Hell NO!!!! Please, just take a character from the games and give them a proper movie.

Why do you believe this is the full reason why it fell through.  This just could be one reason and you have to believe that if MS was shone a finished product that was close to completion with a franchise I am sure they would love to bring back that they would have stuck with it.  There must be a lot more going on then just this report.  Also who says MS isn't going to bring the franchise back.  Without know full details on the whole thing we just do not know what MS plans are and how much of the game was worth continuing to just drop it.