The Watch Dogs movie based on the video game has finished filming, Ubisoft and New Regency have announced. The company celebrated the achievement by sharing a photo of director Mathieu Turi on location filming a scene from the movie. Turi was an assistant director on Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and was the solo director on The Deep Dark and Hostile.
The Watch Dogs film was announced in 2013, but stalled multiple times (as many Hollywood productions do). Production officially got underway in early July, so the film had a relatively quick shoot.
Tom Blyth, who starred in the Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, will play a lead, alongside Talk to Me’s Sophia Wilde.
Turi is staying in the business of adapting video games for the screen, as he is also developing a TV series based on the Plague Tale games.
The Watch Dogs movie was announced a year prior to the game series debuting in 2014, and was originally set up at Sony Pictures. Watch Dogs the game proved popular, and sequels Watch Dogs 2 (2016) and Watch Dogs Legion (2020) followed. The series used places like Chicago, San Francisco, and London as settings across the three installments, and the open-world games feature futuristic hacking and gadgetry. However, there continues to be no word on the setting or story for the movie version.
Beyond Watch Dogs, Ubisoft’s long-in-development Splinter Cell and The Division movies remain MIA. One of Ubisoft’s biggest video game movies so far was the 2016 Assassin’s Creed starring Michael Fassbender. It earned more than $240 million at the global box office.
For more, check out GameSpot’s gallery below that runs through 35 video game movies in development.
