Helldivers Movie Lands Fast & Furious Director Justin Lin

[ad_1] Helldivers is making ready to launch a dropship to a theater close to you through an upcoming movie adaptation, and it simply landed a big-time director. Justin Lin, finest recognized for guiding a number of installments within the Quick & Livid franchise, will helm the challenge.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, the Helldivers film comes from Sony Footage and PlayStation Productions, with Justin Lin’s Good Storm Leisure serving to produce. Lin’s credit embody directing a lot of the installments within the Quick & Livid sequence, beginning with The Quick and the Livid: Tokyo Drift (2006) and persevering with with Quick & Livid (2009), Quick 5 (2011), Quick & Livid 6 (2013), F9 (2021), and Quick X (2023).

In line with THR’s sources, Lin will not be a gamer and is leveraging this in his pitch to “discover the humanity within the characters and weave well timed themes into the story, whereas constructing out a world and mythology.” The script for Helldivers is penned by Gary Dauberman, the author behind the It and Annabelle franchises, in addition to The Nun. Dauberman additionally wrote this 12 months's Till Daybreak, so Helldivers will likely be his second online game adaptation.

Helldivers 2

On condition that Helldivers is basically a online game model of the cult traditional movie Starship Troopers, turning it right into a film does really feel just like the snake consuming its tail. Helldivers facilities on troopers hailing from Tremendous Earth, an uber-patriotic managed democracy, who defend the planet in an intergalactic conflict in opposition to alien bugs, in addition to killer robots and different threats. The primary recreation was launched for the PlayStation 4 in 2015, and Helldivers 2 arrived on PlayStation 5 in 2024 to widespread acclaim and recognition.

The Helldivers film doesn't have a particular launch date or window. Within the meantime, take a look at our evaluations for Helldivers and Helldivers 2. You can even examine different upcoming online game diversifications, together with a brand new fifth Sonic the Hedgehog movie, Name of Obligation, and PlayStation's personal Horizon Zero Daybreak.