The Watch Dogs movie has finally started filming after 10 years<p>Ever since the open world hacker adventure game
Watch Dogs captured the attention of 2012’s E3, there were rumors circulating of a movie remake before the game even got a release date. Now more than 10 years later, the film version is finally happening. <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="
https://x.com/Ubisoft/status/1808540050046484836">Ubisoft announced today on X[/url] that filming has begun on the
Watch Dogs movie with a picture of a clapboard and the caption “Lights_Camera_Action.exe.”</p>
<p>The
Watch Dogs movie was first announced in 2016 at Sony’s GamesCon press conference, according to <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="
https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/20/watch-dogs-movie-in-the-works">
IGN[/url]. Sony announced that Ubisoft Partners teamed up with New Regency to make a film adaptation of Aiden Pearce’s data-hacking adventure in a metropolis overseen by an intrusive server.</p>
<span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>Since then, drips and hints of the movie’s status came and went for years until last month, when <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="
https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/6GCLknCe27aNmvECtOkIK7/watch-dogs-movie-starts-production-this-summer">Ubisoft posted a press release[/url] announcing that production on
Watch Dogs would start sometime this summer. The press release also announced that actor Tom Blyth from
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Sophie Wilde from the sleeper horror hit
Talk to Me will star in the
Watch Dogs film. The movie is being directed by Mathieu Turi based on a script written by Christie LeBlanc (who wrote the 2021 Netflix sci-fi film
Oxygen)
with rewrites by Victoria Bata.</p>
<p>A few years ago, there was also talk of turning
Watch Dogs and
Far Cry, another big Ubisoft franchise, into an <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/2019-10-10-ubisoft-animated-shows.html">animated TV series[/url] following a run of the
Rabbids Invasion cartoons. However, there’s been nothing but radio silence from those projects ever since then. Maybe if the
Watch Dogs movie becomes a hit, the animated series will follow it into production.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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The Watch Dogs movie has finally started filming after 10 years
