GenZedong

It could be said that James Bond was a sort of cope for the dying British Empire; an empowered, competent Britain substituting for the real decaying country being subordinated by the U.S. empire and gradually fading into irrelevance.

I expect the upcoming live-action "Call of Duty" movie to be exactly the same thing: a dying empire coping with its increasing irrelevance by lionizing itself. As reality fails to deliver all their fantasies the imperialists turn to fiction as a coping mechanism. We saw this before in Vietnam where it was impossible to hide how poorly we were doing and Vietnam War films, accordingly, were set to fictional plots & characters rather than real events - unlike WWII movies which were often directly based on actual battles and the people who fought them. There was no victory to glorify in Vietnam so they had to invent one. You saw some of this with Iraq and Afghanistan too but not nearly as much - until, of course, the retreat from Afghanistan. Between that and the empire's humiliation by Iran I expect war movies to return to both nostalgia (when we could actually win wars, like WWII) or outright fiction (which is often thinly-veiled alt history).