{"id":31387,"date":"2025-09-06T22:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31387"},"modified":"2025-09-06T22:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:31:10","slug":"paramount-turns-down-spielbergs-bid-to-create-live-action-version-of-call-of-duty-game-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31387","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Turns Down Spielberg&#8217;s Bid to Create Live-Action Version of &#8216;Call of Duty&#8217; Game Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9Courtesy of Activison<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/list\/ls029950709\/\">Paramount Pictures<\/a> had just sealed a deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7703371\/\">Activision<\/a> for a major live-action film based on the <em>Call of Duty<\/em> game franchise. While no director or cast has yet been associated with the project, it has been reported that Paramount nosed out a pitch by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000229\/\">Steven Spielberg<\/a>\u2019s Amblin Entertainment to direct the movie. in 2015, Stefano Sollima had hoped to direct a film adaptation starring Tom Hardy and Chris Pine, but the project was never greenlighted.<\/p>\r\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/activision-turned-down-spielberg-for-call-of-duty-movie\/\"><em>Puck News<\/em><\/a>, Spielberg was passed over for the job because he wanted full creative control over both production and marketing. The iconic director is reportedly a great fan of combat-oriented video games such as <em>Call of Duty<\/em>, which has sold more than 500 million copies the world over since its debut in 2003. One of the best-selling video games ever, <em>Call of Duty<\/em> includes scenes from World War II as well as futuristic combats in outer space.<br \/><br \/>In a career spanning a half century, the 78-year-old Spielberg is one of the most prolific directors of all time, having created action blockbusters such as <em><strong>Jaws<\/strong><\/em>,<em><strong> Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial<\/strong><\/em>, and the original <em><strong>Indiana Jones<\/strong><\/em> trilogy. He also directed dramatic films such as <em><strong>The Color Purple<\/strong><\/em> and<em><strong> Empire of the Sun<\/strong><\/em>. The iconic director won Academy Awards for Best Director for his work on <em><strong>Schindler\u2019s List<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Saving Private Ryan<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\r\n<p>As Rich Stanton wrote in pcgamer.com: \u201cThen there&#8217;s his direct link to the history of CoD itself. Spielberg came up with the concept and story for 1999&#8217;s <em><strong>Medal of Honor<\/strong><\/em> while immersed in WW2 research and after seeing his son play GoldenEye on the N64: the idea was a more serious and historical take on the military shooter. Spielberg would produce the first three games in the series before Activision poached key members of the MoH: Allied Assault team to form\u2026 <em><strong>Infinity Ward<\/strong><\/em>.\u201d<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out other articles by Edward.\u00a0<\/a><br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Courtesy of Activison Paramount Pictures had just sealed a deal with Activision for a major live-action film based on the Call of Duty game franchise. While no director or cast has yet been associated with the project, it has been reported that Paramount nosed out a pitch by Steven Spielberg\u2019s Amblin Entertainment to direct the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20471],"tags":[28343,28344,2193,28345,59,28346,482,1055],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paramount Turns Down Spielberg&#039;s Bid to Create Live-Action Version of &#039;Call of Duty&#039; Game Franchise | Cinema Daily US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Paramount Pictures had just sealed a deal with Activision for a major live-action film based on the Call of Duty game franchise.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31387\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paramount Turns Down Spielberg&#039;s Bid to Create Live-Action Version of &#039;Call of Duty&#039; 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