{"id":395871,"date":"2026-04-24T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/395871\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:14:08","slug":"michael-b-jordan-eyeing-battlefield-movie-with-christopher-mcquarrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/395871\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael B. Jordan Eyeing ‘Battlefield’ Movie With Christopher McQuarrie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFresh off his Oscar win for Sinners and a completed deal for Joseph Kosinski\u2019s Miami Vice \u201985<\/a>, Michael B. Jordan<\/a> is out to the town with Battlefield<\/a>, a feature adaptation of the Electronic Arts video game that has Christopher McQuarrie<\/a> attached to write, direct and produce, Deadline can confirm.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo word yet on the plot of the feature take. Jordan is looking to produce and may star as well, though it\u2019s too early to say on that. EA will produce.<\/p>\n

\n\tA long-running first-person shooter franchise, Battlefield launched with Battlefield 1942 in 2002. The games center on multiplayer warfare across land, air and sea, taking place in settings ranging from both world wars to Vietnam and the near future. Over the course of its lifetime, the franchise has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tJordan just won his first Oscar <\/a>for his dual roles in Ryan Coogler\u2019s Warner Bros. smash Sinners and is coming off a buzzy CinemaCon presentation<\/a> for his latest directorial effort The Thomas Crown Affair for Amazon MGM Studios \u2014 he stars opposite Adria Arjona in the romantic thriller that releases March 5, 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the driving forces behind Mission: Impossible for nearly two decades, McQuarrie is coming off of Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning \u2014 the installment billed as Tom Cruise\u2019s last in the franchise \u2014 which grossed nearly $600M worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tTHR was first to the news on Battlefield. Stay tuned to see where the project lands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off his Oscar win for Sinners and a completed deal for Joseph Kosinski\u2019s Miami Vice \u201985, Michael…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121483,430,204547,156,60957,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-395871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-battlefield","tag-celebrities","tag-christopher-mcquarrie","tag-entertainment","tag-michael-b-jordan","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}