With production gearing up to launch later this year, Sony Pictures and Playstation Productions’ adaptation of the popular Helldivers video game has suffered a major setback. Jason Momoa, who was set to star in the film directed by Justin Lin, has left the project for unknown reasons.
The search is on for a new star to replace Momoa, so there’s no fear that it’s dead or anything like that.
Helldivers follows the titular shock troopers of a totalitarian government, armed with advanced weaponry and charged with wiping out alien threats to make way for colonization by the fascist Super Earth regime. Gary Dauberman is writing the screenplay.
Momoa has been busy shooting A Minecraft Movie Squared in New Zealand. There’s a pretty good chance he’ll get called up to play Lobo in James Gunn’s Man of Tomorrow, which I’m betting explains his exit from Helldivers. Just a hunch.
Coming up for Momoa is a hefty slate that includes Supergirl, Street Fighter, and Dune: Part Three.
Helldivers is still set to hit theaters on November 10th 2027. [Deadline]
