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 the studio just yet. And 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 the Call of Duty, one of the biggest video games of all time.
 
The dealmaking comes as Pete Berg, the man’s man director behind such movies as Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon and Friday Night Lights, is closing his deal to direct the adaptation.
 
Call of Duty has been the top-selling game franchise in the U.S. for the past 16 years. A first-person shooter game, the setting spans various eras from World War II and Vietnam to the present day and to even decades into the future, with over 500 million copies of its various games sold over the years.

Hollywood was stunned Sunday when news broke that Sheridan would decamp Paramount for NBCUniversal, where he has a film deal kicking in next year and a TV deal starting at the end of 2028.

More to come.