Dusktildawn48
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Can't imagine turning down arguably the greatest director of all time, who made one of the best war movies ever from making the call of duty movie.
Steven Spielberg really wanted to direct a ‘CALL OF DUTY’ movie but Activision turned him down.
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Can't imagine turning down arguably the greatest director of all time, who made one of the best war movies ever from making the call of duty movie.
John Bilbo
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Saving private Duty
Would have been cool
Maybe we get Nicki Minage instead
Would have been cool
Maybe we get Nicki Minage instead
Revolutionary
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He probably wanted to make a real movie about the call of duty but Activision probably just wants some dumb shootbang bullshit
asdasdasdbb
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Bingo. Although that's really what Call of Duty is.
PlayStaytion
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Maybe cause he's not a gamer. There are YouTube videos about real soldiers calling all these military games so fake.
Superposition
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Looks like there were no characters with clown skins in he's script.
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Fabieter
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Tbh besides some outliers Spielberg isnt that deep either. It was actually a good match.
Reizo Ryuu
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Good, he'd probably just make some real and grounded gritty war story, which is cool in its own right, but wouldn't be call of duty.
The games are balls to the walls 1v100 hero fantasy action blockbusters.
The games are balls to the walls 1v100 hero fantasy action blockbusters.
Lunarorbit
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Yeah this is either bullshit or they fucked up so much. Where's the cross synergy at Activision?
Majima Everywhere System
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I mean, it's probably the right decision. The nuance with that audience is off the charts.
The IP means nothing, and the biggest games have concepts of cool dudes in place of characters. No one likes the sci-fi one with a good story.
The IP means nothing, and the biggest games have concepts of cool dudes in place of characters. No one likes the sci-fi one with a good story.
Lunarorbit
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Or 6 fingered Santas
crackajack
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which one? I guess none of the WW2 ones but Modern/Advanced Warfare, Ghost or BO are not the same things?
He was involved in the creation of MoH so he might have a better chance with EA, reviving MoH, or use the not dead Battlefield?
His constant success is mostly because he choses promising scripts and delivers at the very least solid products, so not slapping an IP name next to his own name is barely important. When there is a good script it would work anyway. Spielberg does not need CoD at all.
He was involved in the creation of MoH so he might have a better chance with EA, reviving MoH, or use the not dead Battlefield?
His constant success is mostly because he choses promising scripts and delivers at the very least solid products, so not slapping an IP name next to his own name is barely important. When there is a good script it would work anyway. Spielberg does not need CoD at all.
captainnapalm
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Yup, Spielberg is indirectly responsible for Call of Duty. He helped create the cinematic war game with Medal of Honor shortly after making Saving Private Ryan - he got the idea for a WW2 shooter. It was his company Dreamworks Interactive working with EA. Then the top guys left EA and formed Infinity Ward.
diffusionx
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Steven Spielberg absolutely is a gamer though. he designed one of the best Wii games.
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DirtInUrEye
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Spielberg has been gaming for years, he loves CoD and Battlefield (his son revealed), but I'd have been embarrassed if he had made a CoD movie. Anyway, it don't believe it.
Pedro Motta
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Microsoft and Activision - Dumb and Dumber, glad they merged to the Dumbest.
DirtInUrEye
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I can't imagine a Call of Duty movie having a well told story and the usual highly crafted beginning, middle and end cohesive flow that is a given with Spielberg. Activision probably want a Bad Boys type movie that will spawn a dozen sequels.
Ironically, Spielberg is the guy who starts successful franchises.
Ironically, Spielberg is the guy who starts successful franchises.
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The Pleasure
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Jinzo Prime
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Spielburg is a great director, but when's the last time he made a mass appeal movie? Activision wants a billion-dollar movie, not an Ocsar-bait one.
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DirtInUrEye
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His next production starring Emily Blunt is designed to be a major summer alien invasion movie.
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Tobimacoss
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He is not only a gamer but yuuuuge fan of the franchise, has bought every COD yearly.
Deerock71
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I don't think you'd say no to the man that made Saving Private Ryan when it comes to making a Call of Duty movie.
Hudo
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The biggest irony about this is that without Spielberg, Call of Duty wouldn't exist in the first place. Medal of Honor was a project of one of Dreamworks' development teams because Dreamworks wanted to get into video games. Spielberg himself came up with the idea for the first Medal of Honor (PS1). That team later spun off as 2015 and got bought by EA. Then left EA to found Infinity Ward to make Call of Duty, which was the same type of game as Medal of Honor.
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PlayStaytion
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I just remembered, my bad.
diffusionx
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Microsoft and Activision are both tacky, tasteless companies without any artistic spirit. So of course they will turn down the literally perfect person to make this movie.
PlayStaytion
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He did work with Carmack and Cerny. He did many things in the industry without mentioning his name.
Tiago Rodrigues
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I mean Activision is right...a Call of Duty movie shouldn't be made by the same guy that made Saving Priate Ryan, Band of Brothers, etc.
It could actually be good.
It could actually be good.
Sethbacca
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I can't imagine turning down Spielberg for any project he actually wanted to take on, especially one that's war adjacent. Absolute legend.
I mean, Saving Private Ryan, then producing Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and Masters of the Air (which I hear is good but I haven't seen yet).
I mean, Saving Private Ryan, then producing Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and Masters of the Air (which I hear is good but I haven't seen yet).
Reizo Ryuu
Gold Member
Unless it's literally about the first COD, these are all a different vibe than what call of duty is.
It's less this
and more this
Sethbacca
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I see your point, but Spielberg has directed in literally every genre over the decades. I would have more faith in him to direct any project than almost any other director out there.Unless it's literally about the first COD, these are all a different vibe than what call of duty is.
It's less this
and more this
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TheAtomicPile
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Activision: Tell us Mr. Spielberg, who were you planning on casting for Beavis and Butt-Head?
Spielberg: Who is that? And what do they have to do with Operation Torch and how I'm planning to use it as a metaphor for-
Activision: You're fired.
Spielberg: Who is that? And what do they have to do with Operation Torch and how I'm planning to use it as a metaphor for-
Activision: You're fired.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
I can't express to you or anybody on GAF how pissed off this thread makes me. And then I read your post and it literally and perfectly more than likely describes what happened and it makes me even more mad. Activision knows they want to just make a silly shooty shooty bang bang movie and feared that Spielberg could have made a Video Game movie classic.
They CLEARLY don't want those expectations.
mckmas8808
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Reizo Ryuu
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I could see activision letting him do it if he didn't want full control over it, that's probably the major hurdle here.
ZehDon
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I disagree, actually. For as stupid as Call of Duty's stories actually are, it treats itself as serious as a heart attack. Trying to tap into a kind of cheesy machismo would kill that movie before it was made; no one's lining up for it. The core demo for a COD movie isn't the 14 year olds playing the game today, it's the dads who grew up playing the games. And they would likely have a specific taste in films - Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, Brave Two Zero, Gladiator, 13 Hours, Braveheart, and so on. Serious, well made films, that either give their heroes something to fight for, or present their efforts as heroic and aspirational. Stuff that lasts, that you rewatch. Spielberg would've delivered on that front in spades - and we know he can deliver the action. Instead, we'll likely get an unemotional military promo that says nothing and means less.Unless it's literally about the first COD, these are all a different vibe than what call of duty is.
It's less this
and more this
Reizo Ryuu
Gold Member
Not really, you literally do things like in that commando gif in the games, just because they are telling a "serious" story, doesn't mean the the setting, or set pieces are anywhere remotely realistic, it's basically serious story in a fantasy world. Heck I would argue many of the chase scenes in the games are WAY more out there compared to commando, look at this first chase in the video:
It's complete fast and the furious 10 blockbuster nonsense. The second clip with the ridiculous 007 jumps on the snowmobile while shooting enemies with one hand...
The games are packed with this action blockbuster hero power fantasy shit, it's nothing like spielberg's war movies.