Watch Canine Stay-Motion Movie Adaptation Is within the Works

As online game diversifications proceed to ramp up, it seems to be like Watch Canine will likely be one of many subsequent titles to get the remedy.

Deadline reviews immediately that studio New Regency is growing an adaptation of the Ubisoft property. Sophie Wilde, who broke out in A24’s hit horror film Discuss to Me, is in talks to star, with French filmmaker Mathieu Turi on board to direct and Christie LeBlanc writing.

No plot particulars had been shared past the truth that the movie “is about throughout the universe of Ubisoft’s blockbuster online game franchise,” per Deadline. Every Watch Canine recreation takes place in a fictionalized model of an actual metropolis, following a unique hacker protagonist who inevitably will get wrapped up within the prison underworld (and the rival hackers) of their respective location.

Watch Canine is simply the newest Ubisoft recreation to move to the large display. Different tasks which were introduced embody a live-action Murderer’s Creed sequence for Netflix and a movie adaptation of Tom Clancy’s The Division starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain, though it has been a while since we have gotten information of both of these tasks.

Final yr, Netflix debuted Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, an animated sequence from Adi Shankar that was one thing of a mash-up of varied Ubisoft properties together with Far Cry, Murderer’s Creed, Rayman, and extra.

Watch Canine has had three video games in complete up to now, following protagonist Aiden Pearce in a model of the Chicago metropolitan space within the first one and Marcus Holloway in a fictionalized San Francisco within the second. The most recent recreation, 2020’s Watch Canine: Legion, took a unique method, providing gamers a number of playable characters in a fictionalized model of dystopian London.

Alex Stedman is a Senior Information Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she’s not writing or enhancing, you could find her studying fantasy novels or taking part in Dungeons & Dragons.