Justin Lin is about to direct the upcoming movie adaptation of Arrowhead Recreation Studios’ Helldivers franchise, in accordance to The Hollywood Reporter. Lin is finest recognized for his work on a lot of Fast & Livid motion pictures, and was the director of the collection from The Fast and the Livid: Tokyo Drift in 2006 till Fast & Livid 6 in 2013.
It gained’t mark the primary time Lin has set his sights on outer house, as he additionally directed Star Trek Past in 2016 – and later returned to the Fast & Livid collection to direct 2021’s F9 (through which he despatched Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson into literal orbit in a 1984 Pontiac Fiero).
The Helldivers film has been written by Gary Dauberman, the author of a number of Annabelle movies and The Nun – in addition to the co-writer of 2017’s It and the author of its 2019 sequel, It Chapter Two.
Sony Footage’ and PlayStation Productions’ Helldivers film was introduced early this yr at Sony’s CES 2025 press convention. The undertaking comes within the wake of the immense success of Arrowhead’s Helldivers 2, which grew to become PlayStation’s fastest-selling recreation of all time following its preliminary launch in February 2024, promoting over 12 million copies in its first 12 weeks on sale.
Closely impressed by Paul Verhoeven’s imaginative and prescient for 1997 sci-fi cult basic Starship Troopers, Helldivers 2 is “the uncommon trendy multiplayer recreation that does nearly the whole lot proper” by boasting a ton of freedom and a sensible development system that doesn’t nickel and dime gamers, in accordance to IGN’s assessment.
After initially arriving on PlayStation 5 and PC, Helldivers 2 additionally got here to Xbox Collection X|S in August, 2025.
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