While Battlefield fans have been clamoring for a Battlefield: Bad Company game instead of Battlefield 4, it seems EA has something different in mind when it comes to the franchise.
According to Deadline, Fox is putting the Bad Company men on the small screen. It will be an hour-long action comedy based on the characters from the game's campaign and will be backed by John Eisendrath (Alias), Sony TV and Adam Sandler's production outfit Happy Madison.
The TV show will be written by Eisendrath and will feature the main protagonists from the game. It will follow four renegade soldiers "as they exit military life and enter the private sector. But trouble is never far behind as they realize their commanding officer had used them to further the ends of a shadow unit within the government and now wants them dead to cover his tracks."
The report also states that Eisendrath will also executive produce, along with Happy Madison's Doug Robinson and EA's Patrick Bach and Patrick O'Brien.
Worth noting here is that Patrick Bach is an executive producer at DICE. So I'm guessing that the studio has given their blessing in regards to the adaptation…the question is, will the franchise's fans fall behind, too?
At first glance, this might be a bad idea,but from what the description states, it reminds me of the A-Team — albeit with a different set of characters. Can this work? Well, it's not like videogame IPs crossing over can get any worse than what we have now, right?
One thing Battlefield: Bad Company fans can take solace in is the fact that EA investing in this must mean that more Bad Company games will be released. Unless, y'know, the TV show bombs so hard that it kills the franchise altogether.
Will you watch a TV show based on the antics of Marlowe & Co.? If not, what EA property would you want developed as a TV series?
