Paramount's live-action movie adaptation of Activision's Call of Duty video game series finally has a release date. Announced at CinemaCon this week, the explosive blockbuster film is due to release in theaters on June 30, 2028.
As previously announced, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and Emmy-nominated producer Taylor Sheridan will write and produce the movie alongside Pete Berg. One of Hollywood's biggest names, Sheridan has created, written, directed, and executive-produced multiple record-breaking series for Paramount Network, including Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, 1883, 1923, Lioness, and Landman. Berg is also an accomplished director, producer, writer, and actor, best known for creating and executive producing the Emmy-nominated series Friday Night Lights and directing acclaimed films such as Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon, and Patriots Day.
Together, this duo will look to develop an adaptation that brings the blockbuster video game franchise to life and lives up to the explosive entertainment it delivers to millions of fans each year.
“I told everyone we were only going to make a movie if its right. In David Ellison, we found that partnership,” said producer Rob Kostich, head of Activision, the publisher of Call of Duty. “We want to make sure that the authenticity of it is captured on a human level so that it feels really real and infuse that with epic scope.”
Call of Duty is one of the most popular video game franchises of all time with over 500 million copies sold worldwide. It's the best-selling FPS franchise of all-time, having generated over $30 billion in lifetime revenue, comparable to the level of frnachises like Mario and Pokemon.
The franchise itself is comprised of multiple subseries, the most successful being Modern Warfare and Black Ops. But the franchise has spanned wars from across the decades, from World War II to Vietnma to the present and the future.
We're not quite sure if this movie will adapt any specific Call of Duty game, but when announcing plans to adapt the series, Paramoutn CEO David Ellison promised they were approaching this film "with the same disciplined, uncompromising commitment to excellence that guided our work on Top Gun: Maverick, ensuring it meets the exceptionally high standards this franchise and its fans deserve."
"The film will honor and expand upon what has made this franchise great in the first place, and we cannot wait to get started," added Activision president Rob Kostich back in October. "Our shared goal is quite simple — to create an unforgettable blockbuster movie experience that our community loves, and one that also excites and inspires new fans of the franchise.”