The upcoming film adaptation of Watch Dogs has wrapped filming – following the release of a behind-the-scenes photo (courtesy of a story by PCGamer). The picture, featuring director Mathieu Turi (Hostile, Meander), during a night shoot, was captioned with a message fashioned in a coding style familiar in the hacker series: “run film_wrapped.exe(#watchdogsmovie.mp4)”.
The film, inspired by the video game series created by Ubisoft stars Tom Blyth (The Gilded Age, Robin Hood, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Sophie Wilde (Talk To Me, Boy Swallows Universe), and Markella Kavenagh (The Cry, The Rings of Power).
To date, the Watch Dogs series includes three games: Watch Dogs (2014), Watch Dogs 2 (2016), and Watch Dogs: Legion (2020). In each instalment of the series, hacker rebels fight to overthrow and disrupt a digital information programme known as CTOS, a system with the capability to link entire cities onto a single network.
Christie LeBlanc (Oxygen) has penned the screenplay for Watch Dogs, which started production in June, with revisions submitted by Victoria Bata. Yariv Milchan and Natalie Lehmann (New Regency) will produce the adaptation in partnership with Margaret Boykin (Ubisoft Film & Television).
A release date for Watch Dogs has yet to be disclosed by parties involved in the film, but a post-production period will almost certainly push it off until the end of 2024, by the earliest, or into the start of 2025. Will you be watching the Watch Dogs film upon release? Let us know your thoughts in the comments down below!
In other video-game adaptation news, the final box office figures for Borderlands were published. Find out more here.
