While Taylor Sheridan is known for his vast empire of television shows for Paramount+, his output on the film side has been as arid as a Texas drought.

That is about to change.

Despite the recent headlines of Sheridan decamping the new David Ellison-owned studio for NBCUniversal, the cowboy isn’t done with Paramount just yet. And he is actually in the process of landing one of the highest-profile gigs of this career.

Sheridan is in talks to write the adaptation of Call of Duty , one of the biggest video games of all time.

The dealmaking comes as Peter Berg, the man’s man director behind such movies as Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon and Friday Night Lights, is closing his deal to direct and also write the adaptation.

Sheridan will also produce the feature, as will Berg. David

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