Fresh off his Oscar win for Sinners and a completed deal for Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice ’85, Michael B. Jordan is out to the town with Battlefield, a feature adaptation of the video game from Electronic Arts that has Christopher McQuarrie attached to write, direct and produce, Deadline can confirm.
No word yet on the plot of the feature take. Jordan is looking to produce and may star as well, though it’s too early to say on that. EA will produce.
A long-running first-person shooter franchise, Battlefield lunched with Battlefield 1942 in 2002. The games center on multiplayer warfare across land, air, and sea, taking place in settings ranging from both World Wars to Vietnam and the near future. Over the course of its lifetime, the franchise has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.
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