Activision Blizzard just had a bad experience with adaptations.
Major companies are keen to create kynoselen series of films that combined plot threads and common characters. A vivid example of this approach — tape Marvel over the last ten years. As it turned out, publisher Activision also wants to do that trick with the franchise Call of Duty.
A few years ago, Activision Blizzard made a division of Activision Blizzard Studios — it is looking for ways to move the game series to the big screen.
Bosses at the division visible. First — Nick van Dyk (Nick van Dyk). He occupied one of key positions in Disney, he was responsible for acquisitions and development of brands Marvel and Star wars. Second supervisor — Stacey Sher (Stacey Sher). She’s an experienced producer and brings with him a tape of “pulp fiction”, “Disgusting eight”, “Django unchained” and many others.
Presidents Activision Blizzard Studios argued that films based on Call of Duty already has a few scenarios and studies involving military experts and retired soldiers. Kinosalona Call of Duty planned for many years to come, and the first film will be released in 2018 if everything goes right.
Activision Blizzard Studios is a group of writers, which helps to guide future universe in the right direction. For example, the company is going to make something in the spirit of Black Ops about the unknown history of conflict. Even something like Modern Warfare when the war is out in the open, and attracts the attention of the world. And the third project will probably be somewhere between the first two.
In addition, van dick and cher look to the TV series, which will also become part of the universe Call of Duty. Bosses are planning to make mnogoserijnyj based on real historical events — the Second world war or Vietnam.
Van Dyck directly speaks about the similarities with the style of Marvel strips at the Call of Duty fit into a coherent timeline and overlap with each other. In this case the adaptation will not follow the plots of the games.
Activision Blizzard just had a bad experience with film adaptations: the film “Warcraft” has gathered negative reviews and earned not so much money as we would like. But van Dyck and cher attribute this to the fact that “Warcraft” was given into the hands of third-party studios — Legendary Pictures. The reason — the film rights to Blizzard sold before the merger with Activison.
But the movies Call of Duty itself engaged in Activision Blizzard. The division has already launched the animated series based on the Skylanders for Netflix. It has been very popular: the first episodes attracted about 10 million viewers, and Netflix ordered a third season even before there was a second.
Finally, Activision Blizzard Studios is considering other candidates for adaptation. Among the most obvious and potentially successful — Overwatch and StarCraft. However, Activision, according to van Dyck, a very rich library. The publisher is not afraid to dust off the classics and mossy to shoot a movie even in explanation of some Pitfall from Atari if he gets a good opportunity.
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