Dwayne Johnson’s Video Game Movie Rumored to Be Call of Duty

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson recently told Men’s Journal that he would be starring in another video game adaptation, and while it won’t be revealed until later this year, the rumor mill seems to believe that it will be based on one of today’s most popular FPS franchises.



According to Giant Freakin Robot (via Eurogamer), Dwayne Johnson’s new video game movie is no other than Call of Duty, a live-action adaptation of one of Activision’s (and now Microsoft’s) most prized IPs. While GFR doesn’t seem to be the most credible source, having been described as clickbait by some readers, the idea doesn’t seem far fetched for Johnson, an actor who’s no stranger to military roles. The website also pointed out that Activision had reportedly been thinking about setting up a Call of Duty cinematic universe since 2015.



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It's as if a multi trillion dollar company can test the waters of producing movies.
 
It's actually not a bad way to go creatively. Call of Duty doesn't have the same lore and cast of characters as something like Halo. It should be a lot easier to produce something as Call of Duty has never relied on story. It doesn't need to adhere to the game plot lines hardly at all. With star power and decent action sequences it should be easy enough to land a win.

All they really have to do is make a generic military/special forces focused action flick with a couple references to things in the games and then slap the CoD name on it and call it good.
 
Dan_D said:
It's actually not a bad way to go creatively. Call of Duty doesn't have the same lore and cast of characters as something like Halo. It should be a lot easier to produce something as Call of Duty has never relied on story. It doesn't need to adhere to the game plot lines hardly at all. With star power and decent action sequences it should be easy enough to land a win.

All they really have to do is make a generic military/special forces focused action flick with a couple references to things in the games and then slap the CoD name on it and call it good.
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Yup. Saving Private Ryan / Band of Brothers with the prefix title Call of Duty: would fit right in.
 
Brian_B said:
Yup. Saving Private Ryan / Band of Brothers with the prefix title Call of Duty: would fit right in.
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Exactly. They could do it that way or make it like Extraction with an ensemble type cast. Really, they can do almost anything and slap the CoD name on it and it should work.
 
That's one of the most generic things you can do a movie adaptation of. Basically just a generic war movie at that point, the video game connection is completely redundant.
 
MadMummy76 said:
That's one of the most generic things you can do a movie adaptation of. Basically just a generic war movie at that point, the video game connection is completely redundant.
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That's my point.
 
I would have rather seen someone like Liev Schreiber play Capt John Price, and maybe Travis Fimmel to play Soap McTavish.

Dwayne Johnson doesn't really fit in to the Call of Duty world.
 
MadMummy76 said:
Except you think this makes it a good idea. I think it is a pointless gimmick to milk the name.
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I think it's a good idea in that its a fairly safe bet as far as "video game movie adaptations" go. I don't think it's a good idea in the sense that slapping the CoD name on a war movie is necessary.
 
Dan_D said:
I think it's a good idea in that its a fairly safe bet as far as "video game movie adaptations" go. I don't think it's a good idea in the sense that slapping the CoD name on a war movie is necessary.
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It's mostly because there is no "popular" us involved conflict to exploit. So it's far easier to have it be about a game so nobody is offended to start.
 
MadMummy76 said:
Except you think this makes it a good idea. I think it is a pointless gimmick to milk the name.
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It's definitely a gimmick using the Intellectual Property to sell movie tickets. But hey, I'm willing to think that maybe, just maybe, it will be a good movie even without the use of the IP.

I seriously doubt it, it's not like The Rock is a Oscar winning actor known for deep plot and engaging theatrics - basically he just blows stuff up. But hey, it ~could~ be a good movie.
 
Grimlakin said:
It's as if a multi trillion dollar company can test the waters of producing movies.
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This was probably in the works before Microsoft bought them.

I also don't think the deal has been finalized for Microsoft to already be making these types of calls.

Dan_D said:
It's actually not a bad way to go creatively. Call of Duty doesn't have the same lore and cast of characters as something like Halo. It should be a lot easier to produce something as Call of Duty has never relied on story. It doesn't need to adhere to the game plot lines hardly at all. With star power and decent action sequences it should be easy enough to land a win.

All they really have to do is make a generic military/special forces focused action flick with a couple references to things in the games and then slap the CoD name on it and call it good.
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I get what you're saying, but some of the CoD games had some pretty deep story lines to them.

Speaking of Halo, The Rock would make an awesome Master Chief.
 
Microsoft, Call of duty, and creatively do not belong in a single sentence. Microsoft and their lab of beige is what they do. They formulate things from different shades of corporate beige.
Pretty sure Microsoft designed the "housing development" in that movie Vivarium.
 
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