Peter Berg & Taylor Sheridan Working on ‘Call of Duty’ Movie

Peter Berg & Taylor Sheridan are Developing a ‘Call of Duty’ Adaptation

The pair is teaming up to co-write a movie based on the successful Activision games, with Berg planning to direct the eventual script for Paramount.

'Call of Duty Black Ops 6' from Activision.

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Peter Berg and Taylor Sheridan are developing a ‘Call of Duty’ movie.
It’ll be based on the bestselling Activision Games.
The movie is based at Paramount.

Does Taylor Sheridan really have much free time given how many TV shows he’s overseeing. Even with delegating to other showrunners, we wonder when he found time to take on another project –– presumably between three and four a.m.

But found time he has, teaming up with ‘Lone Survivor’ director Peter Berg to adapt Activision’s huge-selling ‘Call of Duty’ game series into a new movie for Paramount.

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The games have been in development as a potential movie since at least 2015, and at one point, no less a director than Steven Spielberg pitched a take.

Still, the creator of ‘Lioness’ and the director behind a variety of battle-happy movies feel like the right duo to make it work –– with the added bonus that they’re friends and have collaborated before on the likes of ‘Hell or High Water.’

What’s the story of ‘Call of Duty’?

'Call of Duty Black Ops 6' from Activision.

‘Call of Duty’ is backed by Microsoft-owned video game publisher Activision. It encompasses more than 30 mainline games released since the original title debuted in 2003.

When the deal to make a movie was announced in September, Variety heard that while the pact is focused on making one movie, the deal includes the potential for Paramount to expand the ‘COD’ universe across film and TV.

As for the actual plotline, that’s yet to be revealed, but given the warfare-focused first-person shooter style of the game, not to mention both Sheridan and Berg’s love of action, we’d expect conflict.

What else are Peter Berg and Taylor Sheridan working on?

Taylor Sheridan on the set of ‘The Road.’ Photo: CBS ©2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Berg has been busy in the TV sphere himself, most recently overseeing ‘American Primeval’ for Netflix.

He’s attached as a producer to a variety of shows and movies, including upcoming action thriller ‘The Beast.’

Right now, he’s directing based-on-truth movie ‘The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II.’

And Sheridan? What isn’t he doing right now?

The biggest recent news for the prolific writer/creator is that his professional services were poached by NBC Universal, and in 2029 he’ll move his TV duties there.

Paramount still retains his various ‘Yellowstone’ shows and other series created under his deal with the company. And ‘Call of Duty’ will represent one of the final film projects he works on for the studio.