Virtually a decade in the past, Ubisot tried to make a brand new for itself as a film firm by bringing its Assassin’s Creed franchise to the massive display. That didn’t go notably effectively, and although we bought the pretty strong Werewolves Within just a few years later, the French writer has (form of) pivoted to TV. However Ubisoft’s hoping to make cinematic lightning strike thrice, this time with the Watch Canines collection.
Per Deadline, a function movie is within the works from New Regency. It’s already locked down a possible lead in Sophie Wilde, who headlined final yr’s breakout horror flick Discuss to Me from A24. Plot particulars are at present beneath wraps, but it surely’ll be working from a script by Christie Leblanc (Oxygen) and directed by The Darkish Deep’s Mathieu Turi. (Based on the outlet, Turi’s additionally been tapped to direct a movie adaptation as Asobo’s A Plague Story: Innocence.)
The Watch Canines video games are tech thrillers set inside the current day, and whose complete gimmick revolves round hackers manipulating the computing community of no matter metropolis they’re in by means of their cellphone (or a pc). The primary sport caught everybody’s consideration with its gameplay reveal at E3 2012, which teased a promising new future for open world video games. That didn’t totally find yourself being the case; the 2014 title has its followers, but it surely didn’t money the entire checks that demo had written. 2016’s Watch Dogs 2 took issues west from Chicago to San Francisco with a brand new forged of characters and a extra sunny disposition, to the appreciation of many; 2020’s Watch Dogs Legion let gamers play as successfully everybody in London to kind a resistance motion and go up in opposition to the town’s authoritarian regime.
There hasn’t been a brand new Watch Canines entry since Legion, and it’s not clear if Ubisoft has any curiosity in persevering with the franchise. Final yr’s Captain Laserhawk show featured characters from that collection as a part of a shared Ubisoft universe, however that’s not meant to be taken as onerous canon. If the developer has any intent of doing synergy with this eventual new film—even when it’s so simple as a current-gen remake of the unique Watch Canines—that in all probability gained’t be talked about till the movie is definitely made and near launch.
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