Activision and Blizzard Doing Call of Duty “Cinematic Universe,” Skylanders Animated Series, More

I am a mature person, so I hope that all Call of Duty movies allow me to skip straight to the climax. It seems that Activision Blizzard has started a new studio arm for movies and TV, cleverly named Activision Blizzard Studios. It might be too late to slap their logo on the Warcraft movie, but their next projects, via press release, are…

“Skylanders™ Academy,” an animated TV series based on the award-winning Skylanders® game. Currently in production under the supervision of showrunner Eric Rogers (“Futurama“), “Skylanders™ Academy” will feature the voices of Justin Long (“Alvin and the Chipmunks,” “Ask Me Anything”) as Spyro, Ashley Tisdale (“Phineas and Ferb,” “High School Musical”) as Stealth Elf, Jonathan Banks (“Breaking Bad,” “Better Call Saul”) as Eruptor and Norm Macdonald (“Saturday Night Live”) as Glumshanks. Additional voice talent includes Harland Williams and Richard Horvitz.

Norm Macdonald in a Skylanders show? Note to self: remember to loudly and irresponsibly speculate that he may have gambling debts.

Another near-term initiative for Activision Blizzard Studios will be the development of a robust cinematic universe based on the Call of Duty franchise. Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare remains the number one-selling title on next-generation consoles(2) and today marks the launch of the highly-anticipated new Call of Duty®: Black Ops III. Activision Blizzard Studios envisions a series of Call of Duty feature films as well as the possibility of television adaptations.

Glad to hear it will be ROBUST. The challenge will be to make any of them remotely as good as the TV commercials. Or any good at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejMqe1WBtEQ