The video game Watch Dogs is headed to the big screen, and Deadline reports today that Sophie Wilde, the breakout star of last year’s Talk to Me, is attached to lead the film’s cast.
New Regency is adapting the video game from Ubisoft. Mathieu Turi (The Deep Dark) is directing the Watch Dogs movie, written by Christie LeBlanc (Oxygen).
Deadline notes in their report today, “The film is set within the universe of Ubisoft’s blockbuster video game franchise of the same name, with over 50 million players.”
The site goes on to report, “The popular game is set in fictionalized versions of real-life cities, at various points in time, and follow different hacker protagonists who, while having different goals to achieve, find themselves involved with the criminal underworlds of their respective cities. The antagonists are usually corrupt companies, crime bosses, and rival hackers who take advantage of ctOS (central Operating System), a fictional computing network that connects every electronic device in a city together into a single system and stores personal information on most citizens. The player also has access to ctOS, which can be used to control various devices to assist them in combat, stealth, or solving puzzles.”
Yariv Milchan and Natalie Lehmann will produce the upcoming film adaptation for New Regency Pictures, alongside Margaret Boykin for Ubisoft Film & Television.
Ubisoft launched the first Watch Dogs video game in 2014, with three subsequent games coming along in its wake. The most recent was released in 2020, titled Watch Dogs: Legion.
Sophie Wilde got a whole bunch of awards notice for her incredible work in Talk to Me, and we can expect we’ll be seeing a lot more from the rising star in the coming years.
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