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Gary Dauberman, the scribe behind the ‘It’ and ‘Annabelle’ horror motion pictures, wrote the script for the Sony Photos/PlayStation Productions undertaking.
By Borys Kit
Senior Movie Author
Justin Lin, finest identified for his work on the Quick and Livid motion motion pictures, is ready to direct Sony Photos’ and PlayStation Productions’ adaptation of Helldivers, based mostly on the favored online game franchise from Arrowhead Recreation Studios.
Lin may even produce the function through his Good Storm Leisure banner, together with Hutch Parker and PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan.
Gary Dauberman, the scribe behind the hit It and Annabelle horror motion pictures, wrote the script.
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The sport acquired crucial acclaim when it first got here out in 2015 and the sequel, Helldivers 2, offered greater than 12 million items throughout PS5 and PC within the first 4 months after its launch in 2024. The sport lately expanded to Xbox, and is constructed on teamwork, camaraderie, humor and motion.
The idea, which remembers Sony’s Starship Troopers motion pictures, facilities on an elite unit of shock troopers, often called Helldivers, who should battle aliens identified in easy phrases as Bugs, Cyborgs, and Illuminate, threatening to destroy the fictional interplanetery and faux-democratic empire of Tremendous Earth. Throw in some spores and genetically engineered decomposed Bug corpses come to life, and also you’ve bought your self a sci-fi monster celebration.
Lin shouldn’t be a gamer and leaned into that as a power when pitching his tackle the fabric, mentioned insiders. He goals to search out the humanity within the characters and weave well timed themes into the story, whereas constructing out a world and mythology. There are many particulars ready to be drawn in, one thing that’s compelling to the filmmaker.
And it offers Lin a second potential franchise at Sony that has an upward trajectory. On prime of now working within the rising online game adaptation sphere, Lin stays in growth and is connected to direct One-Punch Man, which adapts the massively fashionable manga.
He stays on Brzrkr, the variation of the Keanu Reeves-created comedian arrange at Netflix, although he’s off of crime thriller Stakehorse at Amazon MGM.
The director is understood for turbo-charging the Quick & Livid franchise right into a multi-billion-dollar international phenomenon. After directing The Quick and the Livid: Tokyo Drift, he went on to direct Quick & Livid, Quick 5, Quick & Livid 6 and F9: The Quick Saga, which have collectively earned $2.66 billion globally. Lin additionally helmed Star Trek Past, the ultimate movie within the trendy Star Trek trilogy. He most lately returned to his indie roots for Final Days, a true-life drama that premiered at this 12 months’s Sundance Movie Pageant.
Sony Photos and PlayStation Productions beforehand labored collectively on Uncharted, starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg, which earned $407 million globally and is among the prime ten highest grossing online game adaptation globally. PlayStation Productions can also be a producer on Peacock’s hit sequence Twisted Steel and HBO’s award profitable The Final of Us.
Lin is repped CAA and Sloane Provide.
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