David Bridges
Ever because the open world hacker journey recreation Watch Canine captured the eye of 2012’s E3, there have been rumors circulating of a film remake earlier than the sport even received a launch date. Now greater than 10 years later, the movie model is lastly occurring. Ubisoft introduced immediately on X that filming has begun on the Watch Canine film with an image of a clapboard and the caption “Lights_Camera_Action.exe.”
The Watch Canine film was first introduced in 2016 at Sony’s GamesCon press convention, in line with IGN. Sony introduced that Ubisoft Companions teamed up with New Regency to make a movie adaptation of Aiden Pearce’s data-hacking journey in a metropolis overseen by an intrusive server.
Since then, drips and hints of the film’s standing got here and went for years till final month, when Ubisoft posted a press launch asserting that manufacturing on Watch Canine would begin someday this summer time. The press launch additionally introduced that actor Tom Blyth from The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Sophie Wilde from the sleeper horror hit Speak to Me will star within the Watch Canine movie. The film is being directed by Mathieu Turi primarily based on a script written by Christie LeBlanc (who wrote the 2021 Netflix sci-fi movie Oxygen) with rewrites by Victoria Bata.
A number of years in the past, there was additionally discuss of turning Watch Canine and Far Cry, one other large Ubisoft franchise, into an animated TV collection following a run of the Rabbids Invasion cartoons. Nonetheless, there’s been nothing however radio silence from these initiatives ever since then. Possibly if the Watch Canine film turns into a success, the animated collection will comply with it into manufacturing.
Daniel Mercer
Brandon Fletcher
