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The Call of Duty movie will explore "the cost of war" and probably won't be as graphically violent as director Peter Berg's upcoming Netflix film, The Mosquito Bowl.

In an interview with ComicBook , Berg, who is directing from a script by Taylor Sheridan, said the Modern Warfare games the film draws on are about more than shooting.

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Berg said that underneath the hardware and killing, the games are "really looking at the cost of war, the cost of having to be a warrior who's, for whatever reason, chosen to put himself between real danger and the rest of us, and the burden that these guys carry".

He described the characters - Captain Price, Soap, Ghost, and Alex - as "complicated humans", not "cartoon characters or comic books", and said there's "a real soul" beneath the violence.

"This is not just 'Hey, let's shoot them all up and shoot popcorn!' Like, there's a soul underneath it, that I…