The upcoming Call of Duty movie, set to release on June 30, 2028, will be set in the series’ Modern Warfare universe. Activision confirmed this today via the official CoD account on X, though story details still remain scarce. Paramount Pictures’ Call of Duty film adaptation, written by Taylor Sheridan of Sicario and Yellowstone fame, will follow the Modern Warfare universe, by far the series’ most popular and narratively developed subfranchise. It has a strong core cast of characters, consisting of Captain Price, Soap MacTavish, Gaz, Sergeant Griggs, Yuri, and many others, while also offering some pretty interesting larger-than-life antagonists as well, like Imran Zakhaev, Makarov, and Commander Shepherd. Whether the film will take more inspiration from the original or the rebooted stories is as of yet unknown, but I damn well would love it if they at least consulted the first trilogy due to its undisputed narrative superiority. Characters are more fleshed out, there’s a more concise and clear plot, and while Modern Warfare 3 takes it up a notch, it still remains realistic and grounded. Director Peter Berg revealed today at @FanaticsFest the @CallOfDutyMovie is set in the Modern Warfare universe.In theaters June 30, 2028. pic.twitter.com/CpdFX7kI9z— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) July 18, 2026 Since Taylor Sheridan is the lead writer behind this flick, I have no doubt in my mind that we’ll get to experience a gritty, unforgiving, and perhaps even uncompromising film that deals with heavy subjects and has brutal scenes that’ll render the audience speechless. I mean, such scenes are the staple of Modern Warfare. Think No Russian or Clean House. That sort of speechless. Sheridan’s past work on Sicario gives me hope that Call of Duty won’t wind up being a sanitized, corporate popcorn flick, but since I’ve learned to expect much less of Activision, I’m only cautiously optimistic. Still, he’s a very talented writer who will no doubt lift the quality of this production, which is slated to release in theaters on June 30, 2028.0The post You can never escape Modern Warfare: the CoD movie is confirmed to use the franchise-defining setting appeared first on Destructoid.