As reported earlier this March, Ubisoft Film & Television is working on bringing Watch Dogs, its franchise about hackers against megacorporations, to the big screen. Now, Ubisoft has confirmed that filming has officially begun.
The announcement was made via the Ubisoft X page (formerly Twitter), where the Ubisoft mentions: “Lights_Camera_Action.exe” along with the posting of an image of a clapperboard from the set.
Unfortunately, not much can be gleaned from the image itself, as it appears to be the production team and not any cast members. We do, however, know that actress Sophie Wilde (the award-winning Talk To Me produced by A24) is the director, and that the film is directed by acclaimed French genre director Mathieu Turi, from an original script written by Christie LeBlanc.
Ubisoft chief content officer Margaret Boykin, New Regency CEO Yariv Milchan and the company’s president of film Natalie Lehmann are serving as producers on the film.
What will the Watch Dogs movie be about?
While plot details are being kept under wraps and there’s no word on when it will arrive, the Watch Dogs games take place in fictional versions of real-life cities, at various points in time, and follow different hackers as protagonists who, while having different goals to achieve, all find themselves involved in the criminal underworld of various cities.
The antagonists are typically corrupt corporations, crime bosses, and rival hackers who take advantage of the ctOS (central operating system), a fictional computer network that connects all electronic devices in a city into a single system and stores personal information of most citizens. The player also has access to ctOS, which can be used to control various devices that aid in combat, stealth, or puzzle-solving.
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2024-07-05 11:23:16