Overwatch (film)

Overwatch
Directed by	Anthony & Joe Russo
Produced by	William Renschen Graham King Kurt Albrecht Amy Pascal Phil Lord Christopher Miller Michael Morhaime Gary Ross
Screenplay by	Rodney Rothman Nicholas Stoller Jonathan Aibel Glenn Berger
Story by	Kurt Albrecht
Based on	Overwatch  by Blizzard Entertainment
Starring	Cara Theobold
Music by	Henry Jackman
Edited by	Robert Fisher, Jr.
Cinematography	Caleb Deschanel
Production company	Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Animation Movie Land Animation Studios Blizzard Entertainment GK Films Lord Miller Productions Pascal Pictures MLDPS San Francisco MLDPS London MLDPS India
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release date	November 6, 2020 (2020-11-06) (United States)
Language	English
Country	United States

Overwatch is an upcoming 2020 American computer-animated motion-captured science-fiction action fantasy film based on the video game of its same name by Blizzard Entertainment. It was produced by Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Movie Land Animation Studios and Blizzard Entertainment in association with Blizzard Entertainment and a production of the visual effects company, Movie Land Digital Production Services. It was directed by the Russo brothers, who directed Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame.

The film stars the voice roles of Cara Theobold (who reprised roles from the video game), TBA.

The film will be released on November 6, 2020 by Sony Pictures Releasing in IMAX, Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D and 2D theaters in the United States.

Plot

After a devastating war against a combat-ready team of intelligent machines known as Omnics, the former agents of the heroic team known as Overwatch must join forces once more to fight a new threat.

(Plot to be re-written and expanded)

Cast

Further information: Characters of Overwatch

Tank heroes

• Hailee Steinfeld as D.Va
• Rashida Jones as Orisa
• Seth MacFarlane as Reinhardt Wilhelm
• Danny DeVito as Roadhog
• Jason Sudeikis as Sigma
• Tom Kenny as Winston
• Joseph Izzo as Hammond
• Bill Hader as Wrecking Ball
• Miranda Cosgrove as Zarya

Damage heroes

• Jenny Slate as Elizabeth Caledonia "Calamity" Ashe
• Tim Allen as Bastion
• Masi Oka as Doomfist
• Bex Taylor-Klaus as Echo
• Keean Johnson as Genji Shimada
• Leonardo DiCaprio as Hanzo
• David Cross as Jamison Fawkes
• Mark Wahlberg as Jesse McCree
• Chloe Bennet as Mei-Ling Zhou
• Jennifer Lawrence as Pharah, real name Fareeha Amari.
• Shameik Moore as Reaper, real name Gabriel Reyes.
• Tom McGrath as Soldier: 76, real name Jack Francis Morrison
• Jamie Chung as Sombra
• Lily Tomlin as Symmetra
• John Cena as Torbjörn Lindholm
• Cara Theobold as Tracer
• Gal Gadot as Widowmaker

Support heroes

• Anna Faris as Ana Amari
• Mahershala Ali as Jean-Baptiste Augustin
• Lennon Stella as Brigitte
• Josh Gad as Lúcio Correia dos Santos
• Michelle Rodriguez as Mercy
• Jane Lynch as Moira
• Tenzing Norgay Trainor as Tekhartha Zenyatta

Miscellaneous

• Simon Pegg as Antonio Bartalotti
• Oprah Winfrey as Athena
• Chris Brown as Balderich von Adler
• Johnny Young as Dae-hyun
• H. Dante Tantoco as Efi Oladele
• Sarah Silverman as Emily
• Travis Willingham as Hal-Fred Glitchbot
• Greg Chun as Dr. Harold Winston
• Gulmira Mamedova as The Junker Queen
• Kate Winslet as Katya Volskaya
• Elsie Fisher as Mauga
• Henry Jackman as Maximilien
• Germaine Franco as MEKA
• Dana Gaier as Mina Liao
• Charlyne Yi as Pachimari
• Danny Dimian as Sojourn
• Daniel Henney as Tekhartha Mondatta

Production

Development

Overwatch came about in the aftermath of Blizzard's decision to cancel the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Titan in 2013, a project that had been in development for about seven years. While most others assigned to the project were transferred to other departments within Blizzard, a small team of about 40 people, led by director Jeff Kaplan, were tasked to come up with a new concept for a game in a few months. After some brainstorming, they came onto the idea of a hero team-based shooter, building upon the success of games like Team Fortress 2 and multiplayer online battle arenas. They started with assets developed for Titan to demonstrate the proof-of-concept and were greenlit to build out the full game, the first new intellectual property that Blizzard had developed since StarCraft.

The intra-company experience of Titan's cancellation served to help drive the narrative and setting. They created an optimistic vision of the near-future, some decades following the Omnic Crisis and the formation and collapse of the peacekeeping Overwatch group. This allowed them to create a diverse cast of characters, including non-human ones, and colorful settings from around the globe.

The Overwatch team continues to support the game through free updates, the introduction of new characters, maps, game modes, cosmetic items, seasonal events, and external media to support the game's narrative, as well as continuously tuning how the individual heroes play by monitoring meta-game statistics and user feedback.

As of the development of an untitled Overwatch film on May 12, 2017, it was announced that Sony Pictures Animation and Movie Land Animation Studios will be requiring rights to make the film based on the video game.

Casting

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Visual effects and animation

The visual effects and CGI animation for the film was created by Movie Land Digital Production Services, with a production, in San Francisco, California, using Pixar RenderMan and Blender, with a help of the MLDPS's studio in Mumbai, India and London, England.

Technology

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Music

The music score for the film is composed by Henry Jackman, who is collaborated with the Russo brothers on Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Marketing

The teaser trailer was released before Sonic the Hedgehog exclusively in theaters on February 14, 2020. It was originally scheduled to be released online on April 12, 2020, but was removed from the film's trailer due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on March 19, 2020.

Release

The film will be release in theaters on November 6, 2020. It was originally posted to be released on May 8, 2020, with an international rollout to begin the week prior. But on March 19, 2020, MLAS and Sony announced the film had been pulled from its intended release date and place it to November 6, 2020 due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic's impact on the film industry.

Reception

Box office

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Critical response

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External links

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