{"id":323066,"date":"2025-12-02T16:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323066\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:07:06","slug":"newly-announced-helldivers-movie-director-may-not-be-a-gamer-but-he-has-worked-on-multiple-fast-furious-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323066\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly-announced Helldivers movie director may not be a gamer, but he has worked on multiple Fast & Furious films"},"content":{"rendered":"

The upcoming Helldivers<\/a> film adaptation from Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions has found its director.<\/p>\n

Fast & Furious director Justin Lin will be at the helm of the upcoming adaptation, which is based on Arrowhead Game Studios<\/a>‘ space-based shooter. After directing The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Fast & Furious, Lin went on to also direct Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6 and F9: The Fast Saga.<\/p>\n

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Along with his directing duties, Lin will also produce the Helldivers film via his Perfect Storm Entertainment banner, along with Hutch Parker and PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan.<\/p>\n

According to The Hollywood Reporter’s sources, while Lin himself is not a gamer, he used this to his advantage when pitching his take for the film.<\/p>\n

“He aims to find the humanity in the characters and weave timely themes into the story, while building out a world and mythology,” the publication stated<\/a>. “There are plenty of details waiting to be drawn in, something that is compelling to the filmmaker.”<\/p>\n

Joining Lin is writer Gary Dauberman, who is known for penning horror movies It and Annabelle.<\/p>\n

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The Helldivers film was initially announced back in January, along with a Horizon Zero Dawn adaptation<\/a>. Soon after it was announced, Arrowhead’s Johan Pilestedt confirmed the developer will be involved with the upcoming film, but in a somewhat limited capacity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the meantime while we wait for Sony’s Helldivers film, there is a fan made release available to watch now<\/a>. Created by volunteers at YouTube channel Plot Coalition, the film is almost an hour in length, making it longer than any other Helldivers fan project made to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The upcoming Helldivers film adaptation from Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions has found its director. Fast & Furious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-323066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}