One of the biggest game launches of the decade dropped on November 11, 2009, that game being Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. So unless you’ve been living in a Soviet fallout shelter or a Afghan bunker, you will have no doubt either played it, or at least endured someone, talkin’ to you ladies, that has dropped off the radar after November 11th.
The most recent news is that there are hints about Activision considering, even passively, the thought of turning this video game phenomenon into a movie. Kevin McKidd, the voice of the game character “Soap” MacTavish, told the New York Post PopWrap that there have been talks about making a feature film. Obviously the guys at Infinity Ward are movie literate, even pop culturewise, as the mission where you play US Army Rangers protecting Washington DC from invading Russian forces is titled “Wolverines,” a nod to Red Dawn, in which Soviet forces invade the US, think Dirty Dancing/The Outsiders plus the Reagan Era (does that even make sense?)
In addition to McKidd’s statement, Infinity Ward’s Creative Strategist Robert Bowling posted on his Twitter:
“First round of meetings in Paris wrapped. Grabbing lunch with Xavier Gens, director of the Hitman film while in town. Talking game films.”
Of course, their talk could simply be two friends catching up for a meal and havin’ a good chat. But it does prevent some fodder for thought. Activision has also recently filed for new trademarks on the Call of Duty franchise, which was spotted by Trademork. And Hitman was honestly not too bad for an action movie, however, it was a plot/character/script trainwreck, as well as a further abomination in an already embarassing line of game-movie adaptations (but given a stellar script I think Gens might not do too bad). So while this is all just smoke and rumors right now, a franchise goldmine such as Call of Duty would no doubt pull in major box office dough, regardless of whether its adaptation is amazing or dog penis.
Well, Stay Plugged In!
