It looks like the developers of Helldivers are getting their wish to see A-list talent flock to the game’s big-screen adaptation: Jason Momoa has just signed onto the film. We learned in December that Justin Lin, a Fast & Furious franchise veteran, would be stepping up to direct the Starship Troopers-influenced movie.
Helldivers is the latest Sony Pictures and PlayStation collaboration after 2022’s Uncharted, with Horizon: Zero Dawn among other titles on their future to-do list. The companies have also found success on TV with HBO’s The Last of Us and Peacock’s Twisted Metal series.
According to a Sony press release, “PlayStation’s Helldivers received critical acclaim when the game first came out in 2015, and the sequel, Helldivers 2, sold more than 12 million units across PS5 and PC in the first four months after its launch in 2024. The game recently expanded to Xbox and is performing extremely well. Helldivers 2 is a hugely popular game built on teamwork, camaraderie, humor, and exhilarating action. The story centers on an elite unit of soldiers—known as Helldivers—who must battle alien creatures threatening to destroy the fictional planet of Super Earth.”
Momoa, himself a Fast & Furious star, seems like a solid pick to headline Helldivers, based not only on his action-movie bona fides—you can 100% picture him out there defending Super Earth from hideous and relentless aliens—but also on his success with video game adaptations. Lest we forget, A Minecraft Movie was 2025’s top movie at the domestic box office and came in at number five worldwide.
Helldivers might be worlds away from any chicken jockey theater antics, but we can assume that Momoa, who’s also in the Street Fighter adaptation arriving later this year, is comfortable kicking ass and cracking wise in any fantastical environment. To that end, he’s also playing Lobo in the Supergirl movie coming this summer—extending his DC presence far beyond Aquaman—and will appear without his signature beard in this winter’s Dune: Part Three.
Helldivers is slated to arrive November 10, 2027. Are you excited to see Momoa leading the charge?
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