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While Arrowhead Games continues to look for new ways to innovate the source franchise, Sony's Helldivers adaptation is getting closer to taking off. Having come nearly a decade after its well-received predecessor, the sci-fi shooter title quickly became one of the most popular in the cooperative gaming sphere with its 2024 sequel, as its gameplay cycle and satirical approach to the genre in the vein of Starship Troopers garnered largely positive reviews.
More importantly, Helldivers 2 proved to be one of the biggest financial hits of the past few years, becoming PlayStation's fastest-selling game of all-time by May 2024 and the third-highest-selling title of 2024 in the US, currently totaling over 19 million copies. Riding on this success, Sony announced in January 2025 that a Helldivers movie adaptation was in the early stages of development.
As first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Justin Lin has been tapped to direct the Helldivers movie adaptation. Line, well-known for his tenure in the Fast and Furious franchise, is also set to produce the adaptation, penned by IT and Until Dawn scribe Gary Dauberman, through his Perfect Storm Entertainment banner. At the time of writing, there is no word on the movie's production schedule.
Helldivers 2 Heart Of Democracy.
Lin signing on to helm the Helldivers movie comes as something of an interesting choice for a variety of reasons. For starters, the director reportedly leaned on his not being a gamer to pitch his approach to the title, with his goal to focus on the human characters. When compared to a variety of other video game adaptations, having a filmmaker bring their own approach to a franchise could leae some concerned over the potential faithfulness of its source.
Additionally, depending on when production kicks off, Helldivers will be Lin's first return to the blockbuster genre since his Fast X exit over creative differences, with the filmmaker having most recently returned to his indie roots with the true story-inspired Last Days. Interestingly, while Fast and Furious may have been his bread and butter for over a decade, he has tapped into the sci-fi genre in the past with Star Trek Beyond, which continued the Kelvin Timeline's critical success.
That being said, there is still a chance Helldivers takes some time to make its way to the screen due to Lin's docket. Prior to signing on for the game adaptation, he also lined up the jobs of directing the One-Punch Man and BRZRKR adaptations, both of which remain in various states of development. Given he's been with the former for over three years, a finished script might entice him to jump on that first.
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Posts By Alexander Valentino Jan 9, 2025Even if it doesn't come quickly, however, Sony and PlayStation Productions have enough coming up to let the Helldivers movie take its time in development. In addition to the confirmed third seasons of HBO's Last of Us and Peacock's Twisted Metal series, Amazon MGM also just confirmed a two-season order for a God of War series, while Zach Cregger's Resident Evil is currently in production, among other adaptations remaining in the works.
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91%
Released
February 8, 2024
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Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, In-Game Purchases, Users Interact
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Arrowhead Game Studios, Nixxes
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Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation Publishing
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Helldivers II is the follow-up to the 2015 multiplayer top-down single-player/co-op shooter from Arrowhead Game Studios. The sequel, which has shifted gears to a third-person shooter format, drops players into the boots of elite super-soldiers who fight to protect Super Earth from invading alien forces while taking the fight to those who threaten the "democracy of Super Earth."
Multiplayer Online Co-Op Cross-Platform Play All platforms Prequel(s) Helldivers Franchise Helldivers Number of Players 1-4 players (online) Steam Deck Compatibility Playable PC Release Date February 8, 2024 Xbox Series X|S Release Date August 26, 2025 PS5 Release Date February 8, 2024 Platform(s) PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC Genre(s) Third-Person Shooter, Extraction Shooter, Action, Science Fiction How Long To Beat 70 hours X|S Optimized Yes File Size Xbox Series 25.96 GB Metascore 83 Platforms That Support Crossplay PC & PS5 PS Plus Availability N/A OpenCritic Rating Strong Powered by
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