Gearbox is preparing a television adaptation of the series Brothers in Arms, the war fighting franchise whose first video game was originally released in 2005 for PC, PS2 and Xbox under the Ubisoft edition. The last video game in this saga was published in 2014 exclusively for mobile devices.
Thus, Brothers in Arms resurrect in the form of a television series thanks to the agreement reached by Gearbox with the showrunner Scott Rosenbaum, known for being in charge of series like Queen of the South, V or Gang related. Ronsenbaum not only work as showrunner but also as executive producer, position to share with Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox.
Based on actual classified cases from World War II
As far as we know at the moment, the television series Brothers in Arms be inspired by the video game as a starting point to recover the setting of the Second World War, although its plot will pass through actual events of the contest with the particularity that they will be classified facts.
This project is still in a very early phase of production; its details have been leaked thanks to a Hollywood Reporter exclusive thanks to which we also know other names involved in the project: after this adaptation of Brothers in Arms to the small screen we find names well versed in this adaptation, such as Jean-Julien Baronnet, producer of the film Assassin's Creed, Richard Whelan, from Captain America, and Sean Haran, business manager of Gearbox.
With this announcement, the statements of Randy Varnell, producer of Gearbox, from last November in which he recognized that he liked to take advantage of the saga Brothers in Arms: "It has been -in suspense- and it is something that we know in Gearbox. I cannot say anything, but we would like to do something with it". Previously, in 2018, there was talk of a video game prototype that would recover the franchise in a surprising way, but apparently the return of Brothers in Arms It will come before in the form of a television series rather than a video game.
