Call Of Duty movie rumoured to star Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson has teased that he’s involved with another game to film adaptation and new rumours say it could be Call Of Duty.
Earlier this month, in an interview with Men’s Health, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson suggested that he was working on a new film adaptation of a video game that will be announced this year.
The obvious assumption is that it will be Fortnite, considering he’s already in the game as one of its original characters, but new rumours say that it’s actually the Call Of Duty movie.
Movie news site Giant Freaking Robot claims to have heard this from a trusted inside source, although it says that Johnson is only in talks to star in the movie, so his appearance isn’t a guaranteed.
What’s more, it couldn’t confirm what sort of plot the Call Of Duty movie will have, whether it’s wholly original or based on one of the games, or even its setting. Considering the series has jumped across several points in history, the time period for a movie adaptation is impossible to guess
Johnson’s statement to Men’s Health could be describing Call Of Duty, but it’s purposely vague enough that it could be applied to almost any major gaming franchise.
‘We’re going to bring one of the biggest, most badass games to the screen – one that I’ve played for years,’ he said. ‘I’m really excited to bring it to fans around the world. Of course we’re going to do right by our gamer friends – but really we’re just going to make a great movie.’
Johnson does have some experience with game to movie adaptations, having previously starred in the 2005 adaptation of Doom and 2018’s Rampage, which was loosely based on the game series of the same name (not that many probably realised at the time).
Neither movie was particularly good, with even Johnson
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