Activision Blizzard has announced that it will launch a studio for TV projects and films to further develop its own franchises. The Activision Blizzard portfolio includes titles such as Call of Duty, Destiny, Warcraft, or Diablo.
Fans must be thrilled at the thought: a TV series set in the detailed worlds of Warcraft, Starcraft, or Destiny. All this has now become possible, although it is still a distant prospect.
However, this week Activision Blizzard, after purchasing the Candy Crush developer King for nearly 6 billion US dollars and making significant strides in esports, also announced that it is entering the film business. For the first projects, they have chosen some of their most popular brands, but it’s not, as some might hope, WoW or Destiny.
The first project is a animated series based on the incredibly popular Skylanders toy/game series that is already in the works: they have hired Eric Rogers (Futurama) as the showrunner and engaged well-known voice actors like Justin Long and Jonathan Banks (the Mike from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul).
In the future, they plan films and possibly a TV series centered around “Call of Duty.” Activision plans to design a “robust universe” for several films that could hit theaters or digital distribution channels in 2018 or 2019.
These are the first two projects from the newly established film and television department of Activision Blizzard. Destiny and Blizzard fans will have to remain patient and wait for adaptations, while Warcraft fans at least have the film – and Destiny fans have at least two live-action trailers to spark the imagination of what it could all be like…
Which Activision franchise would you like to see? Preferably on the big screen? Or on TV?
