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‘Helldivers’ Film Adaptation Announced
Sony Pictures is getting ready to spread democracy to the big screen with Arrowhead Game Studios’ Helldivers 2. Announced during Sony’s CES 2025 press conference, the Helldivers film will be a collaboration between Sony Productions and Sony Pictures.
PlayStation Productions head Asad Qizilbash made the announcement during the event, but offered little else in terms of details.
Of course, fans know that Helldivers 2 is heavily inspired by Paul Verhoeven‘s classic 1997 action film Starship Troopers. Similiar to Starship Troopers, Helldivers 2 sees soldiers fo the 22nd century defending Super Earth and its managed democracy (aka an authoritarian government) against alien insects called Terminids, as well as robots called Automatons. It’s all done in the name of “spreading democracy”.
Recently, with the Illuminate update, the game has a third faction to fight in the eponymous Illuminate, an ancient and technologically advanced alien race thought to be extinct, but has now returned and invaded Super Earth’s colonies.
Since its release last February, Helldivers 2 is the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game of all time, having sold 12 million copies in just 12 weeks across the PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam. Helldivers 2 also earned Best Multiplayer Game and Best Ongoing Game at The Game Awards 2024.
Heck, if you’ve been asleep since the game’s launch, Aaron has you covered with his impressions of the game.
The killer tomatoes are back in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, and the offiical poster for the brand new movie has been unleashed tonight.
Additionally, we’ve learned that the film’s theatrical release is set for this August, with a panel set for San Diego Comic-Con this month featuring the world premiere of the trailer.
While you wait, check out the official poster down below.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence will be released in select cities across the US beginning August 7th in major cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Diego, and others, and expanding to further locations throughout the month.
The fifth installment in the horror-comedy franchise pits the eternal power of nature against AI’s best and brightest.
In Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, a young biotech prodigy develops a revolutionary genetically engineered vegetable designed to solve humanity’s problems. But when the experiment spirals out of control, it unleashes a new generation of killer tomatoes, setting the stage for another outrageous chapter in the long-running cult franchise.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes co-creators Costa Dillon and J. Stephen Peace return to write and executive produce. David Ferino directs.
The film features an ensemble cast led by franchise icon John Astin (The Addams Family), reprising his role as Professor Gangreen, comedy legend David Koechner (Anchorman), Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), horror favorite Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier), comedy veteran Dan Bakkedahl (Veep), Myrna Velasco (Star Wars Resistance), Vernée Watson (Shrinking, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), and Paul Bates (Coming to America).
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes launched in 1979, followed by 1988’s Return of the Killer Tomatoes, 1991’s Killer Tomatoes Strike Back, and 1992’s Killer Tomatoes Eat France.
The franchise also spawned an animated series in 1990.
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