Call of Duty movie director Peter Berg has teased more details from his live-action film, promising an adaptation with "a very strong soul" that explores "the cost of war."

The filmmaker behind Skydance-Paramount's upcoming reimagining of Activision's massive first-person shooter series dived into his thoughts on the franchise during an interview with ComicBook. We already know the Call of Duty movie will focus on the Modern Warfare portion of the FPS universe, and it sounds like Berg and writer Taylor Sheridan have already looked to the games it's based on for inspiration.

"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," Berg said. "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 craters 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."

Berg seems to be putting in the work to nail a Modern Warfare story for the big screen, but not every fan is convinced that he's the right guy for the job .

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