In accordance with THR, Quick & Livid director Justin Lin is ready to direct a film based mostly on Helldivers, the favored online game franchise developed by Arrowhead Sport Studios. Sony Photos and PlayStation Productions are collaborating on the mission, which has been scripted by Gary Dauberman, finest recognized for the Annabelle trilogy and the It movies.
What Is Helldivers?
The primary Helldivers online game was launched in 2015 and was a major success. Nevertheless, the sequel, Helldivers 2, really took off, promoting greater than 12 million models on PS5 and PC inside the first 4 months after its 2024 launch.
Many have in contrast the franchise to Starship Troopers, because the video games comply with an elite unit of shock troops dispatched to fight varied threats to humanity, resembling Bugs, Cyborgs, and the Illuminate, whereas spreading managed democracy. With the identical satirical tone because the Paul Verhoeven flick, Helldivers has been praised as loads of enjoyable, with an enormous give attention to teamwork and camaraderie.
Though there’s a story to be discovered within the recreation, there’s additionally loads of alternative to increase it, which is what attracted Lin to the mission. In accordance with THR’s insiders, Lin isn’t an enormous gamer, however he “goals to seek out the humanity within the characters and weave well timed themes into the story, whereas constructing out a world and mythology.” He may even produce the mission by his Good Storm Leisure banner, alongside Hutch Parker and PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan.
What’s Subsequent for Justin Lin?
Lin is credited with serving to to rework the Quick & Livid franchise right into a billion-dollar juggernaut. He first helmed The Quick and the Livid: Tokyo Drift, and returned for Quick & Livid, Quick 5, Quick & Livid 6, and F9: The Quick Saga. He was slated to direct Quick X, however dropped out after one week of taking pictures, reportedly as a consequence of artistic variations with collection star Vin Diesel.
Earlier this yr, he was tapped to helm BRZRKR, the live-action motion flick based mostly on the comedian of the identical title co-created by Keanu Reeves. BRZRKR is a “brutally epic saga about an immortal warrior’s 80,000 yr struggle by the ages. The person recognized solely as ‘B’ is half-mortal and half-god, cursed and compelled to violence, even on the sacrifice of his sanity. However after wandering the earth for hundreds of years, B might have lastly discovered a refuge — working for the U.S. authorities to struggle the battles too violent and too harmful for anybody else. In change, B will likely be granted the one factor he needs — the reality about his limitless blood-soaked existence … and how one can finish it.“
He’s additionally nonetheless hooked up to direct One-Punch Man, based mostly on the massively common manga collection created by author/artist One.
Lin’s most up-to-date movie was a return to his indie roots. Final Days advised the true story of John Allen Chau, a Christian missionary who was killed whereas trying to evangelize the self-isolated Sentinelese individuals.
