Watch Dogs, the Ubisoft video game saga that was like GTA with hackers is getting a movie soon, and filming has just begun. It has been confirmed by its director, Mathieu Turi, a young French director with three horror and science fiction feature films, such as The Tube, about a woman trapped in a place full of passages, or The Deep Dark, about miners trapped underground with a monster.
In an Instagram post, he reveals that the cameras are already rolling on the film, something that makes us breathe a sigh of relief, because this movie had been stumbling around in offices for years, with no one deciding to shoot it. Plans to adapt Watch Dogs to film began even before the first game was out, in 2014. Ubisoft even announced it with great fanfare at E3 2016, coinciding with Watch Dogs 2. Finally, it has reached the hands of Turi, who directs it with two young protagonists, Sophia Wilde and Tom Blyth.
Sophia Wilde, a 26-year-old Australian actress, starred in the hit horror film Talk to Me and The Magic Door, and will now play the lead hacker in this Watch Dogs movie. And Tom Blyth, who recently played the young Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, joined the cast soon after. Mathieu Turi directs from a script by Christie LeBlanc, screenwriter of Alexander Aja's Netflix film Oxygen, and reviewed by Victoria Bata. Ubisoft Film & Television will co-produce the film, produced by New Regency Pictures, a production company that is part of Fox (and thus Disney) in charge of "expensive auteur flicks" such as The Creator, Amsterdam, Barbarian, The Northman.
