{"id":7455,"date":"2010-09-07T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"call-of-duty-black-ops-boasts-top-hollywood-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/7455-call-of-duty-black-ops-boasts-top-hollywood-talent","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty: Black Ops boasts top Hollywood talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activision and Treyarch have announced the names of some Hollywood hotshots who will be involved in the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops &ndash; Gary Oldman, Ed Harris, and David S. Goyer.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Oldman is known for his work in The Professional, Dracula, Batman: The Dark Knight and The Book of Eli. Oldman will reprise his role as Viktor Reznov from Call of Duty: World at War.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Harris is known for his roles in films such as The Abyss, A History of Violence, Pollock, Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff. Harris will play one of the game&rsquo;s main characters, CIA operative Jason Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>David S. Goyer is on board to provide script consultation and story development support. As a filmmaker, Goyer&rsquo;s writing credits include the blockbusters Batman: Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Blade and the upcoming Superman: Man of Steel.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oldman, Harris and Goyer are considered some of Hollywood&rsquo;s finest talents and they perfectly complement Call of Duty: Black Ops&rsquo; ambitious and immersive single player experience,&rdquo; said Mark Lamia, Studio Head of Treyarch. &ldquo;Their contributions have helped us to push the boundaries of our story telling and character development far beyond anything we have ever attempted before in the franchise.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Call of Duty: Black Ops will be released worldwide on 9 November 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Oldman, Ed Harris and screenwriter David S. Goyer officially part of the Black Ops production<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}