{"id":462811,"date":"2026-02-11T20:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462811\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:16:07","slug":"jason-momoa-to-star-in-helldivers-movie-based-on-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462811\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Momoa To Star In ‘Helldivers’ Movie Based On Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJason Momoa<\/a> will star in PlayStation Productions and Sony<\/a> Pictures\u2019 film adaptation of\u00a0Helldivers<\/a>,\u00a0based on Arrowhead Game Studios\u2019 video game franchise. Justin Lin will direct, and the pic will hit theaters on November 10, 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe game debuted in 2015 and the sequel,\u00a0Helldivers 2,\u00a0sold more than 12 million units across PS5 and PC in the first four months after its 2024 launch. The game recently expanded to Xbox and continues to perform.<\/p>\n

\n\tHelldivers 2\u2018s story centers around an elite unit of soldiers \u2014 known as Helldivers \u2014 who must battle alien creatures threatening to destroy the fictional planet of Super Earth.<\/p>\n

\n\tHutch Parker is producing with PlayStation Productions\u2019 Asad Qizilbash, and Lin through his Perfect Storm Entertainment.<\/p>\n

\n\tSony Pictures and PlayStation Productions previously worked together on\u00a0Uncharted,\u00a0starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg, which earned $407 million globally and is one of the 10 highest-grossing video game adaptations globally;\u00a0Peacock\u2019s hit series\u00a0Twisted Metal; and the award winning\u00a0The Last of Us\u00a0for HBO.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was recently revealed that Momoa will be playing intergalactic bounty hunter Lobo in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow<\/a>, in theaters June 26, part of a busy year for the leading action star. Currently, he stars opposite Dave Bautista in Amazon MGM Studios\u2019\u00a0The Wrecking Crew on Prime Video. On May 1, he stars opposite Ryan Reynolds in Warner Bros\/Legendary\u2019s hybrid animated movie Animal Friends. He\u2019s also taking on the iconic role of\u00a0Blanka\u00a0in Legendary\/Paramount\u2019s\u00a0Street Fighter\u00a0out October 16 and returns as\u00a0Duncan Idaho\u00a0in\u00a0Warner Bros\/Legendary\u2019s Dune: Part Three on December 18.<\/p>\n

\n\tMomoa previously played Aquaman in Warner Bros\u2019 DC universe across two movies directed by James Wan. He starred as Dante in Fast X, which Lin wrote and produced. Last year, Momoa starred in Warner Bros\/Legendary\u2019s near $1 billion grossing A Minecraft Movie, arguably the first movie to wake up the 2025 global box office. He is also known for portraying Khal Drogo on HBO\u2019s Games of Thrones.
He most recently starred and co-created Apple TV+ limited series\u00a0Chief of War.<\/p>\n

\n\tCurrently, Helldivers is the only major studio wide release on the November 10 date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Momoa will star in PlayStation Productions and Sony Pictures\u2019 film adaptation of\u00a0Helldivers,\u00a0based on Arrowhead Game Studios\u2019 video…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,79689,21855,1014,215713],"class_list":{"0":"post-462811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-helldivers","10":"tag-jason-momoa","11":"tag-sony","12":"tag-sony-playstation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462811","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=462811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}