Call of Duty Black Ops III Film: What People Are Looking For

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There is no Black Ops III movie. There is a five-day shoot in an abandoned mall starring Michael B. Jordan — and, since 2025, a real Call of Duty film in development.

There is no Call of Duty Black Ops III film. No movie adaptation of that game was ever made or announced. Two things get mistaken for one.

"Seize Glory"

The first is the game's live-action trailer, released in November 2015 and directed by Wayne McClammy. It stars Michael B. Jordan, Cara Delevingne and Marshawn Lynch, and it was shot over five days in an abandoned Southern California shopping mall — the crew used the building's real decay rather than building sets, and most of the action was captured practically instead of in visual effects.

It runs about two minutes and works through the game's toolkit: wall-running, the Dingo and Razorback weapons, R.A.P.S. scorestreaks, the firefly swarm ability, the Gravity Spikes and a Zombies beat at the end. It is an advert, not a short film, though it is shot like one.

The actual Call of Duty movie

The second is the real adaptation. On 2 September 2025, Paramount Pictures and Activision announced a live-action Call of Duty feature. Peter Berg — of Lone Survivor, Patriots Day and Deepwater Horizon — is directing and co-writing with Taylor Sheridan, with both producing. Paramount, under Skydance, develops, produces and distributes.

Which part of the franchise it adapts was still open: Activision surveyed players afterwards asking whether the film should draw on Modern Warfare, Black Ops, Zombies, something outside both, or an entirely new story. Black Ops was on that list, but nothing has tied the film to Black Ops III specifically.

In-game "film"

One other reading: Black Ops III's theatre mode records matches for playback and editing, and the community sometimes calls those clips films. That feature is in the game's own menus rather than anywhere external.