You might recall that there’s a Call of Duty movie in the works from Paramount Pictures, directed by Peter Berg and planned for release in June of 2028. Beyond the fact that it takes place in the Modern Warfare continuity of events and that Berg is co-writing the screenplay with Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan, we don’t know an awful lot about what it might entail, except that Berg has recently reassured us that it will not be like “cartoon characters or comic books,” but will instead be “nuanced” and will really look “at the cost of war.”
This comes from a press junket for Berg’s other upcoming film, The Mosquito Bowl, which comes out this year and is also about the U.S. military. Comicbook went to that event, and got Berg saying a few things about Call of Duty in the process. As Berg explains:
So Modern Warfare , if you really look at the missions, and the storylines, and the characters—like Captain Price, and Soap, and Ghost, and Alex—these are complicated humans. These are not—and no disrespect—cartoon characters or comic books. These are very nuanced storylines; like, there’s a real soul to the Modern Warfare universe… And, yes, there’s violence, and there’s hardware, and equipment, and there’s killing—but underneath it I think the game, and the creators of the game, are really looking at the cost of war, the cost of having to be a warrior who’s, for whatever reason, chosen to put himself between real danger and the rest of us, and the burden that these guys carry.
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