If the news should not make as much noise as the alliance between PlayStation and HBO for the adaptation of The Last of Us, some may still regret the cancellation of Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, the episode which was to taking over from the trilogy released between 2005 and 2008. Unable to relaunch with great fanfare, the Brothers in Arms franchise had had a more anecdotal second life with many episodes developed on portable consoles as well as on mobiles. Gameloft notably produced a trilogy which ended in 2014 with the release of Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War on iOS and Android.
Franchise holder Gearbox Entertainment joined forces with Scott Rosenbaum (The Shield, Chuck, V, Gang Related, Reine du Sud) to adapt Brothers in Arms on the small screen as executive producer and screenwriter alongside Randy Pitchford , the CEO of Gearbox retaining control of the creative direction. Directors are still sought before they can begin production of the series.
Like the games, the first season of the TV series Brothers in Arms will be based on the events of the Second World War. The first episodes will evoke Operation Tigre, a military exercise to rehearse the Normandy landings which did not go particularly well. The series will revolve around a group of eight soldiers whose mission is to save their colonel from the Axis forces before the enemy discovers D-Day plans, but Rosenbaum indicates that she will be interested in characters from both camps, without forgetting to stage historical figures from the conflict.
For the moment, history obviously does not say if this adaptation presages the development of a new game signed Gearbox. Remember also that Borderlands, another franchise developed by Randy Pitchford's studio, is on its way to an adaptation to the cinema by Eli Roth.
