Why hasn't anyone made a Call of Duty-esque blockbuster movie?

[Surpheal]

Call of Duty already takes a lot of inspiration from movies whether they are quoting films like Apocalypse Now, ripping scenes directly from Enemy at the Gates and Saving Private Ryan, or are making it a little too obvious that they are trying to be Red Dawn. All you have to do is a watch your standard American war movie to get a Call of Duty-styled movie. That's probably the best you'll get until Activision decides that they'll allow someone to make an actual Call of Duty film.

If I remember correctly, the Medal of Honor franchise started because of Saving Private Ryan. The game used many of the style choices of the movie. Then after its success other games popped up trying to beat out Medal of Honor, with one of those games being Call of Duty.

So in a sense, there has already been a Call of Duty-esque blockbuster. It is just that it already came out, and the first game to roll off of it was Medal of Honor.

 

[MysticSlayer]

Call of Duty already takes a lot of inspiration from movies whether they are quoting films like Apocalypse Now, ripping scenes directly from Enemy at the Gates and Saving Private Ryan, or are making it a little too obvious that they are trying to be Red Dawn. All you have to do is a watch your standard American war movie to get a Call of Duty-styled movie. That's probably the best you'll get until Activision decides that they'll allow someone to make an actual Call of Duty film.

If I remember correctly, the Medal of Honor franchise started because of Saving Private Ryan. The game used many of the style choices of the movie. Then after its success other games popped up trying to beat out Medal of Honor, with one of those games being Call of Duty.

So in a sense, there has already been a Call of Duty-esque blockbuster. It is just that it already came out, and the first game to roll off of it was Medal of Honor.

Well, Medal of Honor was started by Steven Spielberg, so it obviously was going to have a lot of Saving Private Ryan influence, and this became even more apparent later during Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, which pretty much ripped scenes directly out of the movie. Call of Duty was later created by Infinity Ward, which itself had a lot of people from 2015, the company behind Allied Assault. Naturally, Call of Duty was going to keep the blockbuster-styled design, as its very roots were in the franchise that basically jumpstarted the desire to design your games around popular war movies.

 

[gphjr14]

It's not a movie but Cinemax has a series called "Strike Back" that is pretty much COD with the addition of soft core pornography. Plenty of guns, car chases, explosions etc.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Shoot, it's not like CoD has anything that makes it distinctly CoD. Even the returning villains and tropes in CoD can be replaced with something distinctly not CoD. Makarov, the Russian villain, could be replaced by any other one. It's not Resident Evil has the Umbrella Corporation, or Dead Space has the Church of Unitology and necromorphs, or Metro 2033 has The Dark Ones. It's a series about militaries shooting each other, and there are tons. You can argue a lot of action movies that probably feature American mercenaries vs. Russian mercenaries as a CoD-esque blockbuster.

 

[PrimitiveJudge]

There a few CoD-esque, A few have been said here, But there are others, like The Hurt Locker, Band of Brothers, Enemy at the Gates, The Big Red One. I know a ton of movies came out before CoD, but with the amount of war movies already made, there really isn't any need to make a movie based on a CoD story. Plus WW2 and Vietnam are way over done , please no more. We, however do not have enough Korean war and WW1 movies/games.

 

[The Hero Killer]

The show Strike Back reminds me of Call of Duty meets Army of Two.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

There're tons of COD-esque movies out there.
Now as to why somone hasn't bought the rights to stamp COD on their next gung ho flick, I have no idea. Seems like an obvious call.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

What exactly do you mean by "Call of Duty-esque?" From where I'm standing, Hollywood makes TONS of military focused movies, both plausible and completely implausible and ridiculous.

I'm thinking along the same lines here...It seems like the opposite is happening: Activision and EA and whoever else that makes Call of Battlefield take plot inspiration from Hollywood. If there ever was a Call of Duty movie, it would probably feel like a rip-off of one of a million war movies.

 

[Arslan Aladeen]

The last Die Hard movie looked pretty much like a CoD game. And it was terrible! The games themselves seem to play as either homage or ripoff (depending on how much you like the games) of just about every war/action movie out there.

Next Top Gun you say?

Well we better check with Commander Loggins because that sounds like we're heading straight into the...

Heading? Oh, we're already there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7HkG6OSo3E

 

[Ryotknife]

You mean a movie where the protagonist is a minor member of a large squad and yet has his commander constantly yelling at him to do everything?

...nah not too many movies like that. There are plenty of the "lone wolf" variety like Die Hard series, both of the recent "white house gets attacked", shooter, etc.

Also, CoD doesn't have Americans saving the world, its usually the British and Russians. The Americans in that series serve as nothing more than bullet sponges. The most significant (good) accomplishment the Americans achieved in the Modern Warfare series is that they prevented the US from bombing the US....

There is also "The Gamer" movie where it is 'real life first person shooter', but that movie did horrible. Actually most movies based around video games do horrible.

 

[schrodinger]

The last Die Hard movie looked pretty much like a CoD game. And it was terrible! The games themselves seem to play as either homage or ripoff (depending on how much you like the games) of just about every war/action movie out there.

Next Top Gun you say?

Well we better check with Commander Loggins because that sounds like we're heading straight into the...

Heading? Oh, we're already there!

I love you both.

We must keep going!


Oh, the OP...Uh, no we don't need anymore Call of Duty esque movies because there are plenty of them made already. Also I guess the single player mission in the games play like movies anyway, so it would be a little redundant to make movies of them.

 

[Feedmeketamine]

I dont think they could do any better then the games do, i hate cod just as much as the next vegan hipster gamer but they have the whole cinematic game thing down to a fine tee.