Important Looking Pirates, the Stockholm VFX crew who count credits on The Mandalorian, Westworld, and Watchmen, recently dropped their first cinematic for the game industry, an insanely ambitious nine-minute epic for Battlefield 2042.

Made in concert with Swedish directing duo Fredrik Åkerström and Marcus Kryler, the action-packed and atmospheric film features an excellent digital doppelganger of actor Michael K Williams (The Wire, Lovecraft Country) and follows up the first-person shooter’s reveal trailer released in June.

From Battlefield: “Battlefield 4’s Kimble “Irish” Graves returns – no longer a Marine, but the commander of the No-Pat vessel Exodus, forced to choose between the lives of the 200 refugees on his boat and the future of all the Non-Patriated. Witness the events that will trigger an all-out war in this standalone short film set in the World of 2042.”
 

Client: Electronic Arts, DICE

Production: Important Looking Pirates
Director: Fredrik Åkerström, Marcus Kryler