The meme is so popular that the Arrowhead community wants the “Super Earth Recruiter” from the opening sequence of “Star Wars 2” to star in a live-action movie

As Sony Pictures announced this year that “Bad Boys” will be remade into a movie, before the cast members were known, there was a character that officials and the player community hoped would appear on the big screen, and that was Craig Lee Thomas. An American actor who plays the command recruiter in the opening animation of Helldivers 2.

Although the official story of “Jedi Warriors 2” does not feature many heroes, in addition to “General Brash” broadcast on the game’s video wall, another meme hero “John Jedi Warrior” is widely praised by overseas communities. “Soldier” (John Helldiver) usually refers to a warrior who performs bravely and bravely on the battlefield. Many overseas shooting games have similar hero memes, such as “John Halo” in “Halo”.

In fact, even Arrowhead Game Studios used such a meme to describe the update manual. When the 01.001.104 version was revised, the official target was to weaken the Giant Annihilator because “Super Earth High Command dispatched He formed an elite commando team to destroy the robot production facilities, and this Jedi soldier was named “John Jedi Soldier”.

Craig Lee Thomas made a live-action appearance at last year’s TGA Game Awards. Although his performance lasted only a few minutes, it still heated up the atmosphere of Super Earth Command calling for soldiers. In the eyes of many players, he also became “John Jedi” The incarnation of “warrior”.

Just recently, in response to players talking about the casting of the “Jedi Warriors” movie on the Discord channel, community manager Miitchimus only said that the studio would be involved to some extent, but the details were beyond his position.

However, mitchimus admitted that his only request was “I hope Craig Lee Thomas can participate in the performance, haha.”

So far, Sony officials have not further explained the progress of this remake movie. At present, they only know that it will be produced by Sony Pictures, and there is no information about its release.

However, as to whether Craig Lee Thomas will appear in the role, it has generally gained recognition and consensus from gamers and fans. After all, players who are keen on “Battlefield 2” will have a good impression of his recruitment performance, and it has even become a meme. symbol.

Due to the disappointing situation of overseas fans regarding game remake movies in recent years, former CEO Johan Pilestedt also responded to X recently, saying that the studio is involved in the production, but because movies are not their specialty, they have no decision-making power on many things.

Hey! I’ve been dodging this question. The short answer is yes. The long answer is that we’ll see. We are not Hollywood people, and we don’t know what it takes to make a movie.

And therefore we don’t, and shouldn’t, have final say.

— Pilestedt (@Pilestedt) January 10, 2025

Helldivers 2 dev requests one actor for movie, and we couldn’t agree more
https://t.co/aPRyTQa8zc pic.twitter.com/6sCSBMQHnc

— Helldivers Alerts (@HelldiversAlert) January 13, 2025

Although there are too many uncertainties, if Craig Lee Thomas does appear in the “Jedi Warriors” movie, the transformation into the heroic “Jedi Warriors” seems to be an Easter egg that echoes the game content.

I gotta say, stopping to grab samples mid battle is the most helldivers thing I have ever seen. Dude might be John Helldiver https://t.co/99nD9Dw7zU

— Joseph Smith (@NewBrodycosplay) January 13, 2025