It's been over two years since we learned that the Watch Dogs movie was finally being produced. The big screen adaptation of the open world game was first announced back in 2013 alongside the original game, then disappeared into development hell for years.
It finally resurfaced when New Regency and Sony Pictures/Columbia Pictures formally partnered with Ubisoft on the adaptation and picked the director (Mathieu Turi, who worked on Meander and The Deep Dark), writers (Christie LeBlanc, who worked on Oxygène, and Victoria Bata, who worked on Pitch Perfect 3 and Fate: The Winx Saga), and cast (Tom Blyth, known for Billy the Kid and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes; Sophie Wilde, known for Talk to Me, Boy Swallows Universe, and Bring Her Back; and Markella Kavenagh, known mainly for her role of Nori Brandyfoot in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power).
Filming completed over a year ago, and Watch Dogs fans are curious about the movie. Actor Tom Blyth talked about it in an interview with Screen Rant:
I think the way they wrote that script…even though I'm not particularly a gamer myself, I knew the games. They took it, and they made it about the world we live in today. I will say that I do think that the film really tears apart this world we live in today, which is this online setting, the dangers of everything being interconnected and online in the way that the games do. Yeah, that was a vague answer, but that's all I can say. Sorry, man.
The Watch Dogs film won't be a direct adaptation of the games; it will be an entirely original story. Interestingly, it may be the only new story set in this franchise to be released for a long time, as Ubisoft is reportedly considering it a "dead franchise" at least for the time being.
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