Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead won’t have much direct control over Sony‘s film adaptation of its cruel third-person shooter, but if it were up to studio CEO Shams Jorjani, the movie would include a lot of dead celebrities.
“We’re all hoping for as many A-list actors as possible,” Jorjani said in the Helldivers 2 Discord after being asked about players’ fancasting Chris Pratt as an acid-spewing Bile Titan. “As long as they all get killed violently immediately.”
While I’d personally be interested in seeing a famous actor like, say, Jacob Elordi bravely committing to the Helldivers’ noble crusade against evil after, perhaps, agreeing to marry me, and then poignantly clinging to my black-and-white portrait as his beautiful body is, maybe, tragically crunched by a Devastator…or something…it’s as of yet unclear who will star in the upcoming Helldivers adaptation.
Anyway, like I mentioned, it doesn’t seem like Arrowhead will have a whole lot of influence over how Sony’s movie turns out. Studio CCO Johan Pilestedt wrote recently on Twitter that, while Arrowhead will certainly be involved in the film’s production, “the long answer” to what’s the extent of that influence “is that we’ll see.”
“We are not Hollywood people,” he continued, “and we don’t know what it takes to make a movie. And therefore we don’t, and shouldn’t, have final say.”
For its part, Sony has as of yet released few details about the Helldivers movie aside from the fact that it’s in production. Fans have been letting their imaginations fill in the blanks, expecting the movie to end up like Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 sci-fi classic Starship Troopers – starring Chris Pratt, apparently.