The upcoming Call of Duty movie, set to release on June 30, 2028, will be set in the series’ Modern Warfare universe. Activision confirmed this today via the official CoD account on X, though story details still remain scarce.
Paramount Pictures’ Call of Duty film adaptation, written by Taylor Sheridan of Sicario and Yellowstone fame, will follow the Modern Warfare universe, by far the series’ most popular and narratively developed subfranchise. It has a strong core cast of characters, consisting of Captain Price, Soap MacTavish, Gaz, Sergeant Griggs, Yuri, and many others, while also offering some pretty interesting larger-than-life antagonists as well, like Imran Zakhaev, Makarov, and Commander Shepherd.
Whether the film will take more inspiration from the original or the rebooted stories is as of yet unknown, but I damn well would love it if they at least consulted the first trilogy due to its undisputed narrative superiority. Characters are more fleshed out, there’s a more concise and clear plot, and while Modern Warfare 3 takes it up a notch, it still remains realistic and grounded.
