Watch Canines Stay-Motion Movie Adaptation Is within the Works

As online game variations proceed to ramp up, it appears to be like like Watch Canines will likely be one of many subsequent titles to get the therapy.

Deadline stories in the present day that studio New Regency is creating 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 ready throughout the universe of Ubisoft’s blockbuster online game franchise,” per Deadline. Every Watch Canines recreation takes place in a fictionalized model of an actual metropolis, following a distinct hacker protagonist who inevitably will get wrapped up within the legal underworld (and the rival hackers) of their respective location.

Watch Canines is barely the most recent 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 12 months, Netflix debuted Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, an animated sequence from Adi Shankar that was one thing of a mash-up of assorted Ubisoft properties together with Far Cry, Murderer’s Creed, Rayman, and extra.

Watch Canines 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 Canines: Legion, took a distinct 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’ll find her studying fantasy novels or enjoying Dungeons & Dragons.