Video video games are the brand new battlefield for film concepts, and after a reported bidding battle, it seems Sony Footage is the frontrunner to safe the rights to the Battlefield film.
The Wrap reported that Sony Footage was within the lead place to win the rights, and The Hollywood Reporter backed this up.
The Battlefield film bundle reportedly consists of Mission: Unattainable director Christopher McQuarrie behind the digital camera, with Oscar-winner Michael B. Jordan within the combine to star and produce it. McQuarrie can be writing and producing.
Common, Netflix, Amazon MGM Studios, and Warner Bros. Discovery (now working beneath Skydance) all reportedly submitted bids for the Battlefield film. The Wrap stated the dealmaking course of is “shaping as much as be the most important bidding battle of the yr.” The report didn’t point out any greenback numbers connected to the bids, or some other particulars, nevertheless. For instance, if Netflix closes the deal, many would possibly count on the movie to be launched on streaming as a substitute of theatrically (however even at Netflix as of late that is not a certainty).
Within the online game panorama, Battlefield and Name of Obligation are rivals, and now they might turn out to be movie foes, too. Skydance is making a Name of Obligation film, with Sicario’s Taylor Sheridan writing and Lone Survivor’s Peter Berg directing.
The most recent Battlefield sport, in the meantime, was 2025’s Battlefield 6, which was the yr’s best-selling sport total within the US, surpassing Activision’s Name of Obligation: Black Ops 7. EA and Battlefield Studios will proceed to help the sport with extra updates and new content material into 2027.
In 2024, Battlefield boss Vince Zampella–who has since handed away–said EA had held discussions a couple of Battlefield film or TV present already. A decade in the past, Paramount purchased the rights to make a Battlefield TV present, nevertheless it by no means materialized. In 2012, Fox was growing an hour-long comedy present based mostly on the Battlefield: Dangerous Firm sequence, with Adam Sandler’s firm signed on. This present additionally didn’t come to fruition.
Sony Footage makes a number of online game motion pictures
If Sony Footage succeeds in profitable the Battlefield film rights, it will likely be simply the most recent huge get within the gaming house for the movie studio. Sony Footage was behind the current launch of Zach Cregger’s extremely profitable Resident Evil film, and that film’s co-producer, Roy Lee of Vertigo Leisure, is producing Battlefield as nicely. Sony Footage can be behind 2027’s The Legend of Zelda live-action film, which it is making in partnership with Nintendo.
Sony’s PlayStation Productions division, in the meantime, was behind movies like 2022’s Uncharted, 2023’s Gran Turismo, and 2025’s Till Daybreak, to call a number of.