Helldivers 2 is being made right into a film, and if we’re fortunate it’s going to function a star-studded solid from prime to backside—and if we’re actually fortunate, we’ll get to look at all of them die horribly by the hands of marauding bugs, bots, and creepy aliens.
That formidable plan was shared on the Helldivers 2 Discord by Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani. “We’re all hoping for as many A-list actors as potential,” Jorjani wrote in response to a consumer who expressed hope that Chris Pratt—he who appears to star in every part—will not be within the movie. “As lengthy as all of them get killed violently instantly.”
Signing up a bunch of huge names simply to kill them off as graphically as potential is probably not essentially the most lifelike plan ever, however it’s not with out precedent. My thoughts instantly flashes again to the 1996 motion flick Executive Decision, starring Kurt Russell and Steven Seagal, wherein Seagal will get unceremoniously snuffed within the first act. (Seeing that within the theater at a time earlier than the web spoiled every part was an actual kick, let me let you know.)
It’d be quite a lot of enjoyable to look at recognized names present up within the Helldivers 2 film, do their factor for a couple of minutes, after which get whacked in some terrible approach—I’d completely like to see Michael Ironside introduced in to reprise his “Rico, you understand what to do!” scene from Starship Troopers. But Arrowhead might not have a lot of a say within the matter. Arrowhead chief artistic officer Johan Pilestedt mentioned on X that whereas the studio will probably be concerned within the movie, it is not clear to what extent simply but.
“The lengthy reply is that we’ll see,” Pilestedt wrote. “We usually are not Hollywood folks, and we do not know what it takes to make a film. And subsequently we do not, and should not, have ultimate say.”
A-listers or not, the largest problem going through the Helldivers 2 film out of the gate will probably be differentiating itself from Starship Troopers, the 1997 Paul Verhoeven movie based mostly on Robert Heinlein’s 1959 sci-fi novel of the identical time, which tells a really related (however barely much less on-the-nose and humorous) story of a fascist Earth engaged in infinite battle in opposition to alien bugs. Comparisons are inevitable, and whereas Starship Troopers didn’t go over particularly properly at launch—the satirical side was simpler to overlook in these extra harmless days—it is subsequently loved one thing of a renaissance, as critics and audiences have come to acknowledge it because the subversive anti-fascist movie it was meant to be. As PC Gamer’s Shaun Prescott wrote, it’s going to be very fascinating to see if the Helldivers 2 movie “can handle to be greater than a retread.”
