More PlayStation titles are heading to the big screen, as Sony announced during its CES 2025 press conference that it is working on film adaptations for Helldivers 2 and Horizon Zero Dawn.
Speaking on stage at the event, PlayStation Productions head Asad Qizilbash revealed that the Helldivers 2 movie will be a collaboration between Sony Productions and Sony Pictures, although no further details have been unveiled.
Developed by Arrowhead, 2024’s Helldivers 2 is a multiplayer cooperative shooter heavily inspired by the classic sci-fi movie Starship Troopers. Since its release, it become PlayStation’s fastest-selling game of all time, with 12 million copies sold in 12 weeks. Although details on the film are currently being kept under wraps, fans can expect the appearances of the iconic soldiers clad in black and yellow, a healthy dose of Super Earth propaganda, and, of course, copious amounts of “Managed Democracy”.
The announcement was soon followed by another film adaptation announcement: Guerrilla Games’ 2017 post-apocalyptic RPG Horizon Zero Dawn. “Columbia Pictures and PlayStation Productions are at the early stages of developing a film adaptation of the award-winning Horizon Zero Dawn,” Qizilbash unveiled. “Just imagine, Aloy’s beloved origin story set in a vibrant, far future world filled with giant machines, brought to you for the first time on the big screen.”
Once again, no further information on the film such as a release window, plot details, or type of treatment (e.g. live-action or animated) was announced, but Qizilbash’s statement alludes to it adapting the events of the first Horizon game, which follows outcast Aloy as she battles giant mechanical beasts with primitive weaponry, all while exploring a post-apocalyptic Earth to uncover more about her mysterious birth.
Columbia Pictures is no stranger to video game film adaptations, previously producing 2022’s Uncharted movie, which took elements from multiple games in the franchise to present an original narrative and starred Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg as younger versions of Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan respectively.
That’s not all Sony has in store though, as the studio also announced an anime series in the works based on Sucker Punch Productions’ 2020 samurai adventure Ghost of Tsushima, slated to hit Crunchyroll in 2027.
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