Ben Lindbergh

And even though Peter Berg is directing it and working on it with Sheridan, a known hater of video games, Peter Berg, I don't have high hopes for that film except for Sheridan's involvement.

But this does lead me to a mini rant here.

And I need the rage quit sound drop to tee me up here.

So we are heading for a Call of Duty versus Battlefield box office battle.

It's not just these two franchises going head to head in the online shooter arena, but also Battlefield, the video game franchise, is in the process of being shopped as movie IP.

And Christopher McQuarrie is attached to this from the Mission Impossible films.

And Michael B. Jordan is attached to it

at least to produce and possibly to star.

And I don't get it.

And I just got to say that we've gotten to the point now where we're so far up our asses, where IP is concerned, that anything with any kind of name or established audience, you have to leverage that in order to get a movie made.

And I get it.

People like established properties.

It's easier to break through.

But Battlefield, have we gone so far that we have to adapt the concept of war?

Is that what we're doing here?

Do we have to adapt the concept of a battlefield?

I mean, Call of Duty lore and canon, that's pretty flimsy to hang a film on, too, depending on how they actually adapt it.

But Battlefield, I mean, I have a lot of love for the Battlefield franchise as games, but the concept of Battlefield is just kind of a battle.

It's just a bunch of soldiers and tanks and planes and whatever else just going head to head on a battlefield.

Is that something that you actually need to license?