{"id":325248,"date":"2025-12-02T02:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325248\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T02:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:50:07","slug":"fast-furious-justin-lin-to-direct-helldivers-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325248\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast & Furious\u2019 Justin Lin to Direct Helldivers Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Lin is set to direct the upcoming film adaptation of Arrowhead Game Studios\u2019 Helldivers franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. Lin is best known for his work on a number of Fast & Furious movies, and was the director of the series from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in 2006 until Fast & Furious 6 in 2013. <\/p>\n

It won\u2019t mark the first time Lin has set his sights on outer space, as he also directed Star Trek Beyond in 2016 \u2013 and later returned to the Fast & Furious series to direct 2021\u2019s F9 (in which he sent Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson into literal orbit in a 1984 Pontiac Fiero).<\/p>\n

The Helldivers movie has been written by Gary Dauberman, the writer of several Annabelle films and The Nun \u2013 as well as the co-writer of 2017\u2019s It and the writer of its 2019 sequel, It Chapter Two.<\/p>\n

Sony Pictures\u2019 and PlayStation Productions\u2019 Helldivers movie was announced early this year at Sony\u2019s CES 2025 press conference<\/a>. The project comes in the wake of the immense success of Arrowhead\u2019s Helldivers 2, which became PlayStation\u2019s fastest-selling game of all time<\/a> following its initial launch in February 2024, selling over 12 million copies in its first 12 weeks on sale.<\/p>\n

Heavily inspired by Paul Verhoeven\u2019s vision for 1997 sci-fi cult classic Starship Troopers, Helldivers 2 is \u201cthe rare modern multiplayer game that does almost everything right\u201d by boasting a ton of freedom and a smart progression system that doesn\u2019t nickel and dime players, according to IGN\u2019s review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After originally arriving on PlayStation 5 and PC, Helldivers 2 also came to Xbox Series X|S in August, 2025.<\/p>\n

Luke is a Senior Editor on the IGN reviews team. You can track him down on Bluesky @mrlukereilly to ask him things about stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Lin is set to direct the upcoming film adaptation of Arrowhead Game Studios\u2019 Helldivers franchise, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-325248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}