Helldivers Devs Hope Movie Recruits A-List Top Fodder

Earlier this month, Sony announced plans to make live action movies Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers. The latter is a co-op shooter space marines fighting aliens, and it’s not uncommon for sci-fi action movies to have big stars: yours Tom CruiseChris Pratts and more. If it were up to developers Arrowhead Game Studios, he said, the film would bring in some really big names… and then have them all. to die horribly.

Arrowhead recently held a Q&A Helldivers Discord and some players had questions about the movie. In response to a player’s question, CEO Shams Jorjani said the studio was “hoping for as many A-list actors as possible, as long as they’re all immediately violently killed.” After the announcement of the film fans Pratt has also cast Jack Black and Adam Sandler as in-game creatures such as the Bile Titan or as nondescript marines. Jorjani’s comment has encouraged the players ever since keep running with the jokeso now stars like Sean Bean, Aaron Paul and Dwayne Johnson have been added to the cast. Is there a star you want to see in this movie? Let us know in the comments!

Less jokingly, Jorjani told another player that Arrowhead was being kept in the loop about “some” things. Helldivers movie. But he and CCO Johan Pilestedt believe the studio’s involvement in the film should only go so far. on Twitter, Pilestedt Recently, the developers said, “We’re not Hollywood people, and we don’t know what it takes to make a movie. That’s why we don’t say the last word and we shouldn’t.” The amount of access game developers have to one adaptation varies: their creators Our last and League of Legends these shows have a lot of presence, while others have relatively few chefs in the kitchen.

As for the quality of the finished product, that also varies, and it’s no hard science to determine how successful a creator is in the eyes of newcomers and longtime fans alike. sounds like Helldivers The film is currently in its earliest stage, even Sony it goes forward by making. But taking these into account impact of gameslooks like you’ll have to try it in misaligning them.

(via VG247)

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