Quick & Livid director will convey the Helldivers universe to life in upcoming film

Paul Verhoeven skewered Imperial capitalism together with his 1997 adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, a hilarious motion movie the place battles towards large bugs are punctuated with propaganda-packed advertisements. Arrowhead Recreation Studios’ third-person shooter Helldivers 2 completely captured the movie’s tone with its cinematics and missions, the place troopers shield Tremendous Earth from bugs by invading their planets. Now the inspiration-to-adaptation cycle is coming full circle, with Sony Photos and PlayStation Productions engaged on a Helldivers movie.

In line with The Hollywood Reporter, the film will probably be directed by Justin Lin, who has helmed six Quick & Livid films together with Star Trek Past. The script comes from Gary Dauberman, who wrote the Annabelle movies and beforehand labored with PlayStation Studios on the difference of Till Daybreak. The team-up suggests the Helldivers movie will provide loads of sci-fi motion and horror.

There’s no timeline set for the film, and it could possibly be some time earlier than it reveals up in theaters, provided that Lin has additionally been connected to direct a live-action adaptation of the hit anime One Punch Man since 2022. Sony initially introduced {that a} Helldivers film was within the works in January, when it additionally teased a Horizon Zero Daybreak movie.

PlayStation Productions has had a strong manufacturing schedule since launching in 2019. A 3rd season of HBO’s The Final of Us is within the works and its Twisted Metallic Peacock sequence was simply renewed for a 3rd season as properly. Filming is underway on a reboot of the Resident Evil franchise from Weapons and Barbarian director Zach Cregger, which is predicted to launch Sept. 18, 2026. Different tasks within the works embrace an anime based mostly on Ghost of Tsushima and a God of Conflict sequence for Prime Video.