See gallery There are dozens of video game adaptations in development, but how many will ever see the light of day? Click through for a breakdown of every video game movie and TV series currently in the works. Without Remorse



Michael B. Jordan stars as John Clark, aka John Kelly, in this adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel that spawned the Rainbow Six video game franchise. Paramount was originally slated to release the film theatrically before Amazon Studios entered into talks to acquire the action film with plans to stream it on Amazon Prime, the home of another Clancy character, Jack Ryan. Directed by Stefano Sollima, Without Remorse also stars Jamie Bell, Cam Gigandet, Jodie Turner-Smith, Luke Mitchell and Colman Diego.



Release Date: TBD



Mortal Kombat



At one point New Line had a second sequel to 1995's Mortal Kombat in the works, but now the studio is rebooting the series with The Conjuring's James Wan as producer and Simon McQuoid directing. The cast includes Tadanobu Asano as Raiden, Mehcad Brooks as Jackson "Jax" Briggs, Ludi Lin as Liu Kang, Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade, Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion, Joe Taslim as Sub-Zero and Lewis Tan in an undisclosed role. Production wrapped in December 2019, suggesting the reboot should meet its January 2021 release date.



Release Date: January 15, 2021 Tomb Raider 2



Despite mediocre reviews for 2018's Tomb Raider, MGM and Warner Bros. seem happy enough with the film's box office performance to move forward with a sequel. New writer Amy Jump is penning the script, and Alicia Vikander has expressed an interest in reprising the role of Lara Croft.



Release Date: March 19, 2021 Monster Hunter



Paul W. S. Anderson (the Resident Evil movie series) is directing the Monster Hunter movie for Screen Gems. It will star Milla Jovovich, Ron Perlman and Tony Jaa as members of a UN military team sucked into an alternate dimension full of deadly beasts. The movie was slated to open in 2020 but has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.



Release Date: April 23, 2021



Uncharted



Sony's Uncharted movie has gained and lost at least six directors since being announced in 2009. Bumblebee's Travis Knight is the latest director to walk away from the adaptation, citing scheduling conflicts. The good news is that Tom Holland is still slated to star as adventurer Nathan Drake, with Mark Wahlberg playing his mentor Sully. Venom's Ruben Fleischer is directing the film, which Holland says will draw inspiration from Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. The start of filming has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.



Release Date:July 16, 2021



Minecraft: The Movie



Peter Sollett (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist) will direct the Minecraft movie, which will tell the story of a teenage girl trying to save the Overworld from an Ender Dragon.



Release Date: March 4, 2022



Cyberpunk: Edgerunners



Netflix is moving forward with an anime series tie-in to Cyberpunk 2077. CD Projekt Red will act as producer on the series, with Studio Trigger working as the animation studio, and Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) directing. Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka will compose the score.



Release Date: 2022 Pokemon: Detective Pikachu 2



Legendary Pictures announced a sequel to Detective Pikachu in January 2019, two months before the original hit theaters. While there's been little news since, the strong performance of the first movie gives us no reason to assume the sequel isn't still a top priority. 22 Jump Street's Oren Uziel is penning the screenplay.



Release Date: N/A Sonic the Hedgehog 2



A sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog is in the works. Variety reports that Jeff Fowler, who helmed the 2020 film, is returning to direct the sequel from a script by Pat Casey and Josh Miller.



Release Date: April 8, 2022 Mass Effect



In 2010, it was announced that former Marvel Studios head Avi Arad would be adapting Mass Effect for the big screen for Warner Bros. Legendary Pictures picked up the deal in 2011, but divorced from Warner Bros. in 2013. The last we heard about this was when BioWare head Casey Hudson said it was still in the works in March of that year.



Release Date: N/A



Mega Man



In late 2013, it was announced that Capcom and 20th Century Fox would be making a movie based on the Mega Man franchise. It will be written and directed by Catfish’s Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman While the movie appeared dead after Disney acquired Fox's film assets, Joost and Schulman confirmed at Comic-Con@Home 2020 that the film is still happening and that "big news" should be coming soon..



Release Date: N/A



Gears of War



A Gears of War film under Universal was first announced back in 2016, and new screenwriter F. Scott Frazier (Collide, xXx: Return of Xander Cage) was more recently tapped to write the movie. Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista admitted he considered playing Marcus Fenix in a Gears of War movie a "dream role.



Release Date: N/A



Call of Duty



There isn’t just one Call of Duty movie in development – its sequel is already being planned too. Sicario 2 director Stefano Solima is set to direct the first one.



Release Date: N/A



Borderlands



The Borderlands movie was announced back in 2016, to be produced by Avi and Ari Arad and written by Aaron Berg. While news was slow for several years after, Lionsgate surprised fans in February 2020 by announcing Hostel's Eli Roth will direct the movie, with Chernobyl's Craig Mazin penning a new screenplay draft. Cate Blanchett has been confirmed to star as Lilith.



Release Date: N/A



Half-Life



A movie based on Half Life was meant to be in the works from JJ Abrams, but it seems to be subject to the Half-Life 3 curse.



Release Date: N/A



Halo



While a planned movie adaptation of the original Halo never materialized, the franchise is now being adapted as a series at Showtime. Pablo Schreiber has been cast as Master Chief, while Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders) will direct and produce the series. Last we heard, Halo was planned for a spring 2021 debut, though it remains to be seen if that timetable will hold. Fallout



Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are producing a Fallout series for Amazon. It's unknown whether the series will be an adaptation of one of the games or tell an original story in this post-apocalyptic universe. The Last of Us



The Last of Us movie is in "development hell", according to the game’s director Neil Druckmann, who wrote the original script for Screen Gems. In 2018 Druckmann said that if it ever went ahead, he hopes that the studio doesn’t use his script. Instead, HBO is adapting The Last of Us as a series, with Chernobyl's Craig Mazin overseeing the project and Druckmann both writing and producing.



Release Date: N/A



Silent Hill Sequel



Silent Hill director Christophe Gans is reportedly interested in returning to the franchise, though whether it'll serve as a direct sequel to the previous movies or a standalone project remains to be seen.

Movies With Confirmed Release Dates

With Fallout getting a TV series on Amazon and Netflix developing a Cyberpunk 2077 anime , we thought it would be a good time to revisit the list of all the other video game movies and TV projects that have been announced, planned, or are currently in production right now.For the purposes of this list, we classify a “video game movie” as an actual film adaptation of an existing video game, so something like Wreck-It Ralph (which is just a movie about video games) wouldn’t qualify. They don’t have to be faithful adaptations – they just have to be based on a real game.This gallery was compiled with the help of a number of resources, including IGN’s own news coverage, IMDB , and Den of Geek See something incorrect, missing, or in need of an update? Let us know in the comments!

Without Remorse

Mortal Kombat

See gallery Click on through the slideshow to see who's been cast in the 2021 Mortal Kombat reboot so far... Mehcad Brooks as Jackson "Jax" Briggs Mehcad Brooks (Desperate Housewives, The Game) -- who's set to leave his role as Jimmy Olsen on The CW's Supergirl sometime during the show's upcoming fifth season -- has been tapped to play Super Soldier Jax Briggs, a Special Forces officer with cybernetically-enhanced arms and a steely (get it?) nature. Previously, Jax was played by Gregory McKinney and Lynn Williams in the two live-action films from the '90s. Chin Han as Shang Tsung Chin Han (The Dark Knight, Marco Polo) has been tapped to play ultimate Mortal Kombat baddie, Liu Kang's arch-nemesis, and soul-sucking warlock - Shang Tsung. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa played Shang Tsung in the 1995 film. Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion GET OVER HERE! Hiroyuki Sanada (Lost, Westworld, Avengers: Endgame) will play the hell-bound ninja Hanzo Hasashi - aka Scorpion - who's determined to seek revenge with his sharp Kunai-tipped chains. Chris Casamassa and J.J. Perry played the role previously. Joe Taslim as Sub-Zero Renowned martial artist, and James Wan player, Joe Taslim (The Raid, Fast & Furious 6, The Night Comes for Us) will slip into the glacial gear of Sub-Zero, one of the franchise's most icily iconic characters. We don't know at this time which Sub-Zero Taslim is playing -- either Bi-Han or younger brother Kuai Liang -- but both are cruel Cryomancers, capable of controlling ice. Previously, Sub-Zero was played by Francois Petit and Keith Cooke. Tadanobu Asano as Raiden He may not have lasted long as the Warriors Three's Hogun while facing down Cate Blanchett's Hela in Thor: Ragnarok, but Tadonobu Asano's gotten an upgrade in Mortal Kombat, landing the role of Raiden, the non-Asgardian God of Thunder. As a celestial being with his glowing eyes always on the big picture, Raiden can control lighting as well as teleport. Christopher Lambert portrayed Raiden in the 1995 film while James Remar filled in for the sequel, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Ludi Lin as Liu Kang Ludi Lin, who you can catch in the 2017 Power Rangers film and in the Black Mirror episode "Striking Vipers," will play central hero Liu Kang, one of Earth's most powerful and capable warriors. As the main character for most incarnations and stories within the Mortal Kombat franchise, Liu Kang is the nemesis of inter-dimensional sorcerer Shang Tsung. Robin Shou played Kang in both '90s Mortal Kombat movies. Sisi Stringer as Mileena Newcomer Sisi Stringer will play Mileena, the evil clone of Kitana who wishes nothing more than to slay her "sister." With feline eyes and a twisted fanged face (thanks to her diabolical DNA) Mileena is a lethal lass with sinister sai skills and an almost unparalleled penchant for death-dealing. Mileena was previously played by Dana Hee in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Josh Lawson as Kano Australia's Josh Lawson (House of Lies) is in negotiations to don the metal half-mask and become Kano - the merciless mercenary leader of crime cartel The Black Dragon. An arms dealer with a cybernetic heart, Kano is a killer through and through. JAG's Trevor Goddard played Kano in 1995's Mortal Kombat. Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade Another Aussie actor close to joining the Kombat krew is The Meg's Jessica McNamee, who's circling the Sonya Blade role - the tough as nails General of Earth's special ops forces on a mission to thwart extra-dimensional invaders. Her nemesis? Kano. The man who murdered her former partner. Bridgette Wilson (Last Action Hero, I Know What You Did Last Summer) played Sonya in the 1995 movie while Sandra Hess tagged in for Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Lewis Tan in an Undisclosed Role Lewis Tan (Deadpool 2, and more recently of Netflix's Wu Assassins) is in final talks to play a yet-to-be-named role. Max Huang as Kung Lao Max Huang is a stunt performer and actor of Chinese and German descent, according to IMDB. He's known for his stunt performances in Kingsman: The Secret Service, Jackie Chan's The Foreigner, and Hitman: Agent 47. He'll be playing Kung Lao, the former Shaolin Monk whose wide-brimmed hat is so razor sharp it can cut a man in half. Kung Lao didn't appear in either of the original Mortal Kombat movies.

Tomb Raider 2

Uncharted

Minecraft: The Movie

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Movies Without Confirmed Release Dates

September 18, 2020Michael B. Jordan will star as John Clark in two of Paramount’s planned Rainbow Six Siege movies, based on the Tom Clancy books Rainbow Six and Without Remorse. Without Remorse is scheduled for release in September 2020, and an ensemble-driven Rainbow Six sequel is currently planned.January 15, 2021At one point New Line had a second sequel to 1995's Mortal Kombat in the works, but now the studio is rebooting the series with The Conjuring's James Wan as producer and Simon McQuoid directing. The cast includes Tadanobu Asano as Raiden, Mehcad Brooks as Jackson "Jax" Briggs, Ludi Lin as Liu Kang, Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade, Hiroyuki Sanada as Scorpion, Joe Taslim as Sub-Zero and Lewis Tan in an undisclosed role. Production wrapped in December 2019, suggesting the reboot should meet its January 2021 release date.March 19, 2021Despite mediocre reviews for 2018's Tomb Raider, MGM and Warner Bros. seem happy enough with the film's box office performance to move forward with a sequel . New writer Amy Jump is penning the script, and Alicia Vikander has expressed an interest in reprising the role of Lara Croft.April 23, 2021Paul W. S. Anderson (the Resident Evil movie series) is directing the Monster Hunter movie for Screen Gems. It will star Milla Jovovich, Ron Perlman and Tony Jaa as members of a UN military team sucked into an alternate dimension full of deadly beasts.July 16, 2021 Sony's Uncharted movie has gained and lost six directors since being announced in 2009. Bumblebee's Travis Knight is the latest director to walk away from the adaptation, citing scheduling conflicts. The good news is that Tom Holland is still slated to star as adventurer Nathan Drake, with Mark Wahlberg playing his mentor Sully. Venom's Ruben Fleischer is the latest director rumored to be up for directing the film, which Holland says will draw inspiration from Uncharted 4: A Thief's End March 4, 2022Peter Sollett (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist) will direct the Minecraft movie, which will tell the story of a teenage girl trying to save the Overworld from an Ender Dragon.2022Netflix is moving forward with an anime series tie-in to Cyberpunk 2077 . CD Projekt Red will act as producer on the series, with Studio Trigger working as the animation studio, and Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) directing. Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka will compose the score.

Assassin’s Creed 2

Borderlands

Brothers in Arms

Call of Duty

Carmen Sandiego

Centipede

Contra

The Division

Duke Nukem

Fallout

Fatal Frame

Firewatch

Five Nights at Freddy’s

Fruit Ninja

Gears of War

Half-Life

Halo

Heavy Rain

Just Cause

Just Dance

Kane & Lynch

The Last of Us

Mass Effect

Mega Man

Metal Gear Solid

Metro 2033

Missile Command

Monument Valley

Pokemon: Detective Pikachu 2

Portal

Rabbids

Resident Evil

RollerCoaster Tycoon

Shinobi

Silent Hill Sequel

The Sims

Sleeping Dogs

Super Mario: The Movie

Tetris

Watch Dogs

Werewolves Within

A sequel to the first Assassin’s Creed movie was already in the works during the production of the first, but information about the follow-up is minimal.The Borderlands movie was announced back in 2016, to be produced by Avi and Ari Arad and written by Aaron Berg. While news was slow for several years after, Lionsgate surprised fans in February 2020 by announcing Hostel's Eli Roth will direct the movie , with Chernobyl's Craig Mazin penning a new screenplay draft. Cate Blanchett has been confirmed to star as Lilith.Gearbox is developing a live-action series based on the Brothers in Arms games , one that will explore both the Allied and Axis sides of the WWII conflict. The series is overseen by showrunner Scott Rosenbaum, with Randy Pitchford executive producing.There isn’t just one Call of Duty movie in development – its sequel is already being planned too. Sicario 2 director Stefano Solima is set to direct the first one.Jane the Virgin-star Gina Rodriguez is set to play Carmen Sandiego in both a live-action film she is also producing, and an animated TV series produced by Netflix.MoviePass Films has partnered with Atari to produce films based on both Centipede and Missile Command. MoviePass' shutdown in 2019 casts the future of this project in doubt.Arcade run and gun classic Contra is getting a live-action film in China, produced by Beijing Starlit Movie and TV Culture.Deadpool 2 director David Leitch is set to helm this adaptation of the Ubisoft game, which will star Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal in leading roles.Gearbox Software has reportedly teamed up with the Assassin’s Creed movie producer Jean-Julien Baronnet to adapt Duke Nukem into a movie. John Cena is rumored to star.Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are producing a Fallout series for Amazon. It's unknown whether the series will be an adaptation of one of the games or tell an original story in this post-apocalyptic universe.The popular survival horror series built around ghost photography is reportedly being adapted by Silent Hill director Christophe Gans.In 2016 it was announced that Campo Santo’s Firewatch was going to be adapted into a movie, but we’ve heard nothing since.A Five Nights at Freddy’s movie is currently in the works from Blumhouse, but production recently hit a snag after the greenlit screenplay was rejected by Five Nights creator Scott Cawthon.In 2016 it was reported that a ‘live-action family comedy’ based around Halfbrick’s Fruit Ninja is in the works, but we’ve heard nothing since.A Gears of War film under Universal was first announced back in 2016, and new screenwriter F. Scott Frazier (Collide, xXx: Return of Xander Cage) was more recently tapped to write the movie. Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista admitted he considered playing Marcus Fenix in a Gears of War movie a "dream role.A movie based on Half Life was meant to be in the works from JJ Abrams, but it seems to be subject to the Half Life 3 curse.While a planned movie adaptation of the original Halo never materialized, the franchise is now being adapted as a series at Showtime. Pablo Schreiber has been cast as Master Chief , while Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders) will direct and produce the series. Last we heard, Halo was planned for a spring 2021 debut, though it remains to be seen if that timetable will hold.First announced in 2006, the rights to a Heavy Rain were bought by two former New Line executives. It’s safe to say this one will probably never see the light of day, though it was never announced it was officially canceled.Derek Kolstad (the creator of the John Wick franchise) scripted this big screen adaptation of the Square Enix/Avalanche video game franchise. Constantin Film (the Resident Evil films) and Prime Universe (the Hitman films) are producing this action flick, which aims to kick-off a new film franchise around the game series' iconic protagonist Rico Rodriguez.Just Dance is going to be a video game. In January 2019 it was announced that Screen Gems will develop a film version of Ubisoft’s annual video game, somehow.This one was first announced in 2007, and was originally set to star Jamie Foxx and Bruce Willis. The last we heard anything around this movie was in 2013 when THR reported Gerard Butler and Vin Diesel were in talks for the two leads.The Last of Us movie is in “development hell”, according to the game’s director Neil Druckmann, who wrote the original script for Screen Gems. In 2018 Druckmann said that if it ever went ahead, he hopes that the studio doesn’t use his script. Instead, HBO is adapting The Last of Us as a series , with Chernobyl's Craig Mazin overseeing the project and Druckmann both writing and producing.In 2010, it was announced that former Marvel Studios head Avi Arad would be adapting Mass Effect for the big screen for Warner Bros. Legendary Pictures picked up the deal in 2011, but divorced from Warner Bros. in 2013. The last we heard about this was when BioWare head Casey Hudson said it was still in the works in March of that year.In late 2013, it was announced that Capcom and 20th Century Fox would be making a movie based on the Mega Man franchise. It will be written and directed by Catfish’s Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman.Jordan Vogt-Roberts will direct this adaptation of Konami's long-running action game franchise as rooted in Hideo Kojima's lore , but not a straight-up adaptation of the story from the games. A script was already completed, but the movie doesn't yet have a date.The movie adaptation of Metro 2033 is currently on hold, after screenwriter F.Scott Frazier butted heads with Metro creator Dmitry Glukhovsky over the film’s setting. Who knows where it will go from here.The last we heard about a Missile Command movie was 2016, after it was announced Atari was teaming up with Emmett/Furla/Oasis films to spin the 1980 arcade game into a big screen spectacle.Paramount Pictures has a Monument Valley adaptation in the works, and animator Patrick Osborne (Big Hero 6) is due to direct the live-action/CGI hybrid.Legendary Pictures announced a sequel to Detective Pikachu in January 2019, two months before the original hit theaters. While there's been little news since, the strong performance of the first movie gives us no reason to assume the sequel isn't still a top priority. 22 Jump Street's Oren Uziel is penning the screenplay.Like Half-Life, a movie based on Portal was meant to be in the works from JJ Abrams. The status of this is anyone’s guess.A movie based on Ubisoft’s Rabbids franchise was first announced in 2015, as a collaboration between Ubisoft and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Robot Chicken’s Matthew Senreich, Tom Sheppard and Zeb Wells were set to write the script.The Resident Evil film franchise is due to be rebooted by director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters down). The Conjuring's James Wan will produce the first of a planned six (!) movie series. That first movie was slated to begin production in 2019, though there's been little news since Roberts signed on.We haven’t heard anything about the RollerCoaster Tycoon movie since 2010, when it was reported that Harald Zwart (the Karate Kid remake) would be heading up the film for Sony Pictures Animation.Scott Pilgrim producer Marc Platt was poised to adapt Shinobi to the big screen back in 2016. “With Shinobi, we hope to make a film that honors the essence of the games,” Platt said at the time.Silent Hill director Christophe Gans is reportedly interested in returning to the franchise, though whether it'll serve as a direct sequel to the previous movies or a standalone project remains to be seen.It was back in 2007 that we heard a Sims movie was in the works with 20th Century Fox. We’ve heard nothing since, so it’s possible that the project is long dead.A Sleeping Dogs adaptation was confirmed to be in development in 2017, with radio silence since, Donnie Yen confirmed it was still happening on his Instagram account in 2018.Nintendo and animation studio Illumination teamed up, with Shigeru Miyamoto and Chris Meledandri co-producing a CG-animated take on Nintendo's most popular character due out in 2022. Universal Studios, Nintendo's partner for Mushroom Kingdom theme park attractions, will distribute the film.In 2016, Tetris producer Larry Kasanoff confirmed he was planning a sci-fi trilogy around the iconic puzzle game. How that will actually work is still up for debate.A Watch Dogs movie was announced in 2013, but it has since lingered in development hell, despite a brief announcement in 2016 that it was “still happening.”Ubisoft’s social VR deception game Werewolves Within is getting a big-screen adaptation, with Mishna Wolff writing the script.