Jason Momoa has been announced as the lead of the upcoming Helldivers 2 movie adaptation.
Helldivers will hit cinemas November 10, 2027 and be directed by Justin Lin (Fast & Furious, Community). Momoa will star in an unconfirmed role.
Top-down shooter Helldivers was released in 2015 and followed a troop of elite Super Earth soldiers taking on a variety of alien enemies. A sequel followed in February 2024 and quickly became Sony’s biggest ever PC release, breaking a record set by 2018’s God Of War. Helldivers 2 went on to become Sony Studios most popular release, shifting over 12million copies in three months. A movie adaptation was announced last January.
According to PlayStation Productions Head Asad Qizilbash, the film will take heavy inspiration from Helldivers 2 which is set in the 22nd century after a fascist Super Earth emerged victorious from the First Galactic War. The hit game follows a group of soldiers trying to contain a breakout of genetically-engineered bugs known as Terminds from galactic farms while defending Super Earth from revenge-driven attacks by Automatons and the mysterious alien race known as The Illuminate. The game was heavily inspired by 1997’s sci-fi satire Starship Troopers, which was based on Robert A. Heinlein’s 1959 novel of the same name.
This can only work if he is given 1 page of dialogue and dies 10-15 mins into the movie.
Then the main role is given to a B or C list actor whose role is being a Day-One Cadet who is struggling to survive and is constantly reinforcing new squadmates throughout the movie.
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When the Helldivers movie was announced last year, head of game developers Arrowhead Studios Shams Jorjani joked the team were “hoping for as many A-listers as possible” for the cast but only if they “get violently killed immediately.”
According to a Deadline article, Arrowhead won’t be directly involved in the creation of the Helldivers movie which is being made between PlayStation Productions and Sony Pictures.
Momoa is also set to reprise his role as Garrett ‘The Garbage Man’ Garrison in the sequel to A Minecraft Movie and will star as Blanka in the upcoming Street Fighter movie alongside 50 Cent’s Balrog.
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