Arrowhead trusts the newly-announced Helldivers movie director, and has shut down any feedback suggesting the director ought to at the very least attempt the sport earlier than taking up the difference.
Earlier this week, it was introduced that Quick & Livid’ Justin Lin could be taking the director reins for Sony’s upcoming Helldivers adaptation, which might be based mostly on Arrowhead’s recreation. On this announcement, it was revealed that Lin just isn’t a gamer himself, and truly used this to his benefit when pitching his take for the movie.
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Nevertheless, whereas this transfer was clearly sufficient to win over these inside the movie enterprise, it brought about a little bit of scepticism with some over on the sport’s Discord server. The truth is, one consumer tagged Arrowhead’s studio head Shams Jorjani asking if they might direct the difference as an alternative.
Evidently, Jorjani didn’t take the consumer up on the provide, and as an alternative confirmed his assist for Lin’s work. “Let Justin Lin work his magic,” Jorjani replied.
In an extra trade, one other member of the Helldivers 2 Discord requested the Arrowhead exec to make sure Lin “performs the sport at the very least as soon as” or checks out some gameplay footage. Once more, Jorjani affirmed that Lin is the proper individual for the job.
“I belief Justin,” the Helldivers 2 CEO stated, including: “He did an awesome job on the Star Trek film.”
The Helldivers movie was initially introduced again in January, together with a Horizon Zero Daybreak adaptation. Quickly after it was introduced, Arrowhead’s Johan Pilestedt confirmed the developer might be concerned with the upcoming movie, however in a considerably restricted capability.
Within the meantime whereas we look ahead to Sony’s Helldivers movie, there’s a fan made launch obtainable to look at now. Created by volunteers at YouTube channel Plot Coalition, the movie is sort of an hour in size, making it longer than another Helldivers fan mission made to this point.
