It's official: Ubisoft and film company New Regency are starting work on a film based on Watch Dogs

Back in March 2024, there was a rumour that Ubisoft was teaming up with film company New Regency to start work on a film based on Watch Dogs, an edgy game series about hackers in a world of the not-too-distant future.

Today this information has been fully confirmed.

Here's What We Know

Ubisoft has officially announced the start of filming of the Watch Dogs film adaptation.

The film was directed by French director Mathieu Turi and scripted by Christie LeBlanc, with support from Victoria Bata.

Sophie Wilde, star of the horror film Talk To Me, and Tom Keir Blyth, who starred in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, will play the lead roles.

It's not yet known how much of the film's plot will be in line with the Watch Dogs games, but if audiences are expecting a film adaptation of the first part of the game, the story will be set in Chicago of the not-too-distant future, where all infrastructure and city services are subordinated to the ctOS system and citizens are under constant surveillance.

But there is a possibility that it will be an independent story in the Watch Dogs universe.

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