Fresh disconnected his Oscar triumph for Sinners and a completed woody for Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice ’85, Michael B. Jordan is retired to nan municipality pinch Battlefield, a characteristic adjustment of nan video crippled from Electronic Arts that has Christopher McQuarrie attached to write, nonstop and produce, Deadline tin confirm.
No connection yet connected nan crippled of nan characteristic take. Jordan is looking to nutrient and whitethorn prima arsenic well, though it’s excessively early to opportunity connected that. EA will produce.
A long-running first-person shooter franchise, Battlefield lunched pinch Battlefield 1942 successful 2002. The games halfway connected multiplayer warfare crossed land, air, and sea, taking spot successful settings ranging from some World Wars to Vietnam and nan adjacent future. Over nan people of its lifetime, nan franchise has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.
Jordan conscionable won his first Oscar for his dual roles successful Ryan Coogler’s Warner Bros. smash Sinners and is coming disconnected a buzzy CinemaCon position for his latest directorial effort, The Thomas Crown Affair, for Amazon MGM Studios — a romanticist thriller wherever he stars other Adria Arjona that releases March 5, 2027. Upcoming, he’ll besides beryllium seen starring other Austin Butler successful nan recently titled Miami Vice ’85.
One of nan driving forces behind Mission: Impossible for astir 2 decades, McQuarrie is coming disconnected of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning — nan installment billed arsenic Tom Cruise’s past successful nan franchise — which grossed astir $600M worldwide.
THR was first to nan news connected Battlefield. Stay tuned to spot wherever nan task lands.