The big news over the last couple of days has been Taylor Sheridan jumping ship from Paramount, where I think he made every non-Star Trek show they’ve got that anyone watches, to NBCUniversal. Well, he’s not done with Paramount just yet, and will stick with them on arguably the biggest project of his career. Deadline reports he’ll team with Peter Berg to bring the blockbuster video game Call of Duty to life on the big screen.
This is huge. Sheridan will write the screenplay, with Berg directing. On paper, this is a match made in heaven. Sheridan and Berg are longtime friends, and their ultra-masculine sensibilities are the same. Berg is the filmmaker behind Lone Survivor, Battleship, Hancock, Mile 22, and more. He most recently directed Spenser Confidential for Netflix. All of these are dude movies, I might add.
This won’t be the first time Berg and Sheridan have worked together, either. Berg was a producer on Sheridan’s Hell or High Water and Wind River, both incredible neo-Western films that achieved critical acclaim. In short, this pairing is long overdue.
When the Call of Duty news broke last month, I said that Berg was the perfect choice for the military-style shooter adaptation. And it seems someone was listening!
