Live-Action Watch Dogs Movie Set Photo Announces Production Has Begun

Production is now underway on the live-action Watch Dogs movie.

Director Mathieu Turi posted a photo on Instagram announcing that filming has begun on the forthcoming Watch Dogs movie, which is based on Ubisoft’s popular video game series of the same name.

View the photo below:

What do we know about the Watch Dogs movie?

Ubisoft initially announced that a Watch Dogs movie was being developed in 2013. Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were hired to pen the screenplay in 2014; however, they both exited the project by March 2024.

At that time, it was announced that Turi had been hired to direct the film, while the screenplay comes from Christie LeBlanc (Oxygen) and Victoria Bata (Fate: The Winx Saga). Turi previously directed 2017’s Hostile, 2020’s Meander, and 2023’s The Deep Dark.

Sophie Wilde has been cast in the lead role of the Watch Dogs movie. Wilde is known for playing Mia in 2022’s Talk to Me, while she also starred alongside Patrick Gibson, Christopher Waltz, and Sam Neill in 2023’s The Portable Door.

She has additionally appeared in television series such as 2021’s Eden, 2023’s Everything Now, and 2024’s Boy Swallows Universe, while she’ll soon be seen in Halina Reijn and A24’s Babygirl, which also stars Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, and Antonio Banderas.

In addition to Wilde, the Watch Dogs movie will star Tom Blyth, who is best known for playing Coriolanus Snow in 2023’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

Yariv Milchan and Natalie Lehmann are producing the movie for New Regency Pictures, while Margaret Boykin is producing for Ubisoft Film & Television

Plot details for the Watch Dogs movie remain under wraps at this time. A release date has not yet been announced by Sony Pictures Releasing.

Brandon Schreur

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