After shaking up the television industry, leaving Paramount for NBCUniversal after many years and a ton of streaming TV success, Taylor Sheridan is closing the book on a major chapter of his filmmaking career. However, before that chapter finally closes, he has one more major card to play for his former production home: a film collaboration with director Peter Berg.

Sheridan’s television deal with Paramount runs until 2029, but next year, he will be free to produce feature films for NBCU. Before he takes his cowboy hat to a new frontier, the Yellowstone creator will help Paramount produce a potentially huge piece of intellectual property, an adaptation of the extremely popular military-themed video game series Call of Duty.

The script for the live-action feature film adaptation of Call of Duty, produced by Paramount and Activision, will be co-written by Berg and Sheridan. Berg is known for directing the Texas football drama Friday Night Lights (and creating the iconic television show), and Mark Wahlberg action vehicles such as Deepwater Horizon and Mile 22.

Activision, the video game publisher owned by Microsoft, is all in on the Call of Duty adaptation.  The series includes almost 30 mainstream games that have been produced since 2003. Sources stated that although the agreement is centered on producing a single Call of Duty picture, it also allows Paramount to broaden the Call of Duty world for both cinema and television.

Video game adaptations have been a phenomenon for decades, but in recent years, they have become a major box office success. Paramount is the home of the Sonic the Hedgehog films, which have grossed more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office. This year’s A Minecraft Movie is one of the highest-grossing films of the year, making almost $1 billion worldwide. A Call of Duty film is a potential blockbuster, considering the game’s iconic status and widespread presence in video game culture.

The brain trust of Sheridan and Berg is, on paper, the perfect duo to bring the violent military game to life. Sheridan’s Special Ops: Lioness is a recent example of the Texas creator’s expertise in depicting military operations on screen. When he really dips his pen into exploring quasi-military, we have gotten films like Sicario, directed by auteur director Dennis Villeneuve, who used Sheridan’s script to fit his vision (ultimately making a great movie).

Berg made Friday Night Lights, but has also made several military/action movies starring Mark Wahlberg, to varying degrees of mediocre to bad. Berg and Sheridan could work out great as a collaboration, but it would not be surprising if Marky Mark plays a significant role in the Call of Duty movie.

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This article originally published at Taylor Sheridan to make ‘Call of Duty’ movie before Paramount exit.