Fox Adapting ‘Battlefield: Bad Company’ For Television

Deadline reveals that Fox has begun development on Bad Company. This series will be an hour long action comedy based on the EA video game, Battlefield: Bad Company. The first person shooter, while serious at times, definitely was one of the more light-hearted FPS’s out there. Battlefield: Bad Company was released in 2008 and spawned a sequel two years later. The game has received mostly positive reviews. The critics praised the story’s humor as well as the game’s technical aspects.

The series is being developed by John Eisendrath (Alias), Sony TV and Happy Madison studios. The pilot for the series has already been written by Eisendrath and will feature the main characters from the game. The show has been described as:

“It follows 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.”

Video games haven’t had the best track record when being adapted so far. But maybe a television show may work out better than a film?