“I wasn’t interested in that, at all”: Writer of Call of Duty’s Most Underrated Franchise Also Gave us Robert Downey Jr’s Worst Post-Endgame Movie

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“I wasn’t interested in that, at all”: Writer of Call of Duty’s Most Underrated Franchise Also Gave us Robert Downey Jr’s Worst Post-Endgame Movie

There was a time when Activision decided to bring in a popular Hollywood writer to write a Call of Duty game and the result was 2013’s Call of Duty: Ghosts, an underrated gem of the Call of Duty franchise. Not many will agree with that statement. However, every fan will agree that the game featured some innovative ideas that were ahead of their time. In fact, many elements of modern Call of Duty games originated from that game.

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What’s crazy is that the same writer who wrote the campaign of Ghosts is the one who wrote and directed actor Robert Downey Jr.’s first movie after he left the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 2020’s Dolittle was expected to be another Stephen Gaghan’******, however, it turned out to be a box-office bomb.

Stephen Gaghan wrote the campaign of Call of Duty: Ghosts

Director/writer Stephen Gaghan has worked on some iconic movies and TV shows but Call of Duty: Ghosts was Gaghan’s first project outside of Hollywood, so naturally he was eager to learn how things functioned in the gaming industry. In 2013, Gaghan appeared for an interview with

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and talked about the experience of writing one of the most underrated games of the Call of Duty franchise.

Before Gaghan, many Hollywood writers were brought in, however, they just saw the story and instructed what needed to be done, but Gaghan got his own office and worked alongside developers to understand how the company was working. When he was asked why he didn’t just “look at the story, tell them what to do, and go home,” he said,

I wasn’t interested in that, at all. Where my office was located, down one axis were computer programmers writing code, and down the other were the designers making levels. And I was right at the intersection. And I thought that was not just interesting but important because nobody really knows what’s coming down the pike, and everyone’s always predicting the end of the movie business, and here are these people who are going to make a billion dollars in twenty-four hours, and they’re working their ****** off, but they’re also having a really good time.

Overall, Gaghan loved the process and the people he worked with, and in the end, he gave fans the iconic campaign of Ghosts. When the game was initially released, the campaign was labeled as “lengthy, challenging, and varied,” however, it wasn’t too bad. Today, many will agree that Ghosts was an important entry in the franchise, mainly because it introduced some new features that completely changed first-person shooters.

Stephen Gaghan’s work hasn’t always been a success

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Dolittle (Image via Universal Pictures)

Many would be shocked to learn that a legend like Stephen Gaghan is the same person who created 2020’s Dolittle. The movie featured Robert Downey Jr. as the titular character and was the actor’s first movie after 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. Apart from Robert Downey Jr., the film featured some heavy hitters like Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Jessie Buckley, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, and Tom Holland, but unfortunately, nothing could save the film.

Upon release, Dolittle was met with generally negative reviews from critics as well as fans. The film reportedly had a budget of roughly $175-192 million and it grossed $251 million worldwide. Hopefully, Gaghan will be able to redeem himself with all the next projects he has been working on. It has been confirmed that Paramount has brought in the writer to write a remake of the movie Heaven Can Wait.

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