Ever for the reason that launch of its first-ever online game in 2003, the Name of Responsibility franchise simply retains on trucking. Followers eagerly await Black Ops 7, and the installments which have hit retailer cabinets within the final decade have persistently upped the ante. Josh Duhamel (Ransom Canyon) lent his abilities to Name of Responsibility: WWII (2017), whereas famed Ecuadorian actress Maria Elisa Camargo starred in each Warfare II (2022) and Warzone 2.0 (2023). It is at all times an added deal with when Hollywood will get concerned in high-profile video video games — and apparently, each Duhamel and Camargo can now be noticed in a live-action thriller that Lionsgate simply launched.
MovieWeb lately spoke with Camargo whereas she was selling Off the Grid, which sees Duhamel’s lead character doing simply that for the sake of worldwide safety. Camargo performs an area store proprietor searching for the lone wolf, and the actress spoke about brushing up on her familiarity with Duhamel’s work main as much as manufacturing of Off the Grid, directed by Johnny Martin.
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The actor spoke to MovieWeb amid the discharge of ‘Off the Grid,’ which additionally stars Greg Kinnear, and commented on the ‘Transformers-G.I. Joe’ crossover.
“I had seen him, clearly, in Transformers,” she advised MovieWeb. “I had seen the film that he wrote and directed… Buddy Video games… oh my God, it is so humorous… I used to be, like, very enthusiastic about discovering out who I used to be working with. So, after all, I noticed quite a lot of [director] Johnny’s films, and I used to be so, like, in shock that his final film [featured] Al Pacino, Nicolas Cage, John Travolta. I used to be like, ‘Wow. And also you noticed me?’ That was simply insane.”
Authentically ‘Off the Grid’
Camargo continued, heaping reward on her Off the Grid co-stars Josh Duhamel and Greg Kinnear…
“I checked a bunch of interviews of Josh and [Off the Grid co-star] Greg Kinnear, who I additionally had a few scenes with, simply to type of see what they have been about. After which I spotted that Josh is type of precisely how he did the entire Buddy Video games expertise as a result of he is simply a lot enjoyable. He is simply, you recognize, so humble, like, zero ego. He is simply humorous like that. He is only a stunning human being, like, right down to earth, like nobody as a result of, you recognize, in Latin America, typically all of us consider we’re novel stars, and we simply levitate. And I might count on Hollywood to be — if something — even, you recognize, extra intense. And everybody was simply so candy. It was simply my largest shock. Greg Kinnear additionally was such a pleasure, such a delight.”
MovieWeb spoke with Off the Grid director Johnny Martin as effectively, amid the movie’s latest launch, and the longtime Hollywood filmmaker additionally sang praises for Camargo’s co-star Duhamel. “Josh is an off-the-grid type of man. He has a spot in Minnesota that he lives in off the grid,” stated Martin. “So once I wrote the script with my associate, we principally designed it for Josh in thoughts, pondering that, you recognize, let’s write scripts that match the actors as effectively, than simply them making an attempt to carry out that character.”
Take a look at the authenticity for your self. From Lionsgate, Off the Grid is now obtainable in theaters, on demand and on digital.
Off the Grid
- Launch Date
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June 27, 2025
- Director
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Johnny Martin
- Writers
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Jim Agnew
- Producers
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David Lipper, Rafael Primorac, Richard Salvatore, Andrea Iervolino