Ben Lindbergh

Like, we need the IP to Battlefield, which is just battling, basically?

I mean, I know there's a little lore to the more modern-day Battlefield games that are not just set in World War II or World War I or whatever.

And so there is, like, an alternate...

recent past and future and everything.

But does anyone particularly care about that?

This just seems like we need to do Battlefield because maybe people recognize the Battlefield name.

So again, it could just be confused for any other war movie, essentially.

Like, I just don't know that there's anything that's going to set a Battlefield film apart that is so dependent on the established Battlefield IP that you actually have to be basing it on that.

Am I off base on this?

No, you're totally right, Ben.

That's where we are with video game movies too, though.

I mean, I'm all for video game movies and I was a booster of video games.

I was writing for years like Hollywood, what you doing?

There's a gold mine of video game IP here and belatedly they've gotten in on that.

But now it's getting to the point where basically everything is seen as, aha, here's our next major film franchise

Battlefield, it's just innate.

Yes.

If you can make it anything you want, then why even base it on Battlefield?

It's not a new phenomenon.

I mean, Battleship was adapted to the board game and Peter Berg directed it of upcoming Call of Duty movie fame.