'Battlefield' Game to Become TV Series

Feature-film adaptations of video games have not enjoyed much success at the box office - the international popularity of Warcraft aside - but now Paramount is going to try a different tactic: adapting the Battlefield video game into a TV series. The studio is working in conjunction with production company Anonymous Content to turn the game franchise into a series that, the producers hope, will be picked up by a TV network.

The first-person-shooter combat game would not, at first glance, be the kind of game that would seem to lend itself to the narrative demands of an ongoing TV series, but this is the second time that the game series has attracted the attention of TV producers. In 2012, Fox began to develop a series based on the Bad Company titles in the game franchise, but that series never made it to the air.

Paramount and Anonymous cited the game's established fan base as motivation for adapting it for TV, but neither company offered any details about the proposed content, cast or timing of the series. Michael Sugar, who produced the film Spotlight, will produce the Battlefield series along with Ashley Zalta.

The two companies are also developing projects for Netflix and TNT, including Selena Gomez's Thirteen Reasons Why and Emma Stone's Maniac.