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If they want to make games into movie how about Half Life and Fallout.
This shit was announced over two years ago and just they've just now selected a director?
They had a director before this guy if you read the thread you can
Jake Gyllenhaal to Produce and Star in Ubisoft's THE DIVISION Movie
Following record-breaking sales, Ubisoft is already developing a movie based on its video game Tom Clancy’s the Division, and now looks to have an A-list star to lead the film.
Sources tell Variety that Jake Gyllenhaal is attached to star in the pic based on the hit video game that has already become Ubisoft’s fastest-selling product.
Gyllenhaal is also attached as a producer, and the studio is currently looking for a writer to pen the adaptation. Ubisoft could not be reached for comment.
The third-person shooter is set in a dystopian New York City in the aftermath of a smallpox pandemic. The player, who is an agent of the Strategic Homeland Division, commonly referred to as simply “The Division,” is tasked with helping to rebuild the Division’s operations in Manhattan, investigating the nature of the outbreak and combating criminal activity in its wake.
Early reports had the game reaching $330 million dollars in sales in just five days, and that number has surely grown in recent weeks. Ubisoft will package the project, possibly adding one more actor to the mix before taking it out to studios. It currently has Assassin’s Creed starring Michael Fassbender in post-production at Fox and New Regency as well as Splinter Cell starring Tom Hardy at Paramount.
Jake Gyllenhaal to Star in Ubisoft’s ‘The Division’ Movie (Exclusive)
This shit was announced over two years ago and just they've just now selected a director?
Haven't played the game but Jake Gyllenhall is one of my favorite actors around. He doesn't fit a lot of roles though and because I haven't played the game I'm not sure how this is going to work. Seems like an odd fit based on that little blurb but I could be wrong.
I like the idea as the entire point of Division is that anyone could be a member, from your neighbor the computer tech to the semi-crazy mechanic you swear is tweaking out half the time. They were supposed to blend in to the populous as a last line of defense when shit hits the fan. And Jake looks like a guy who could blend into a crowd with ease.
Fucking Tom Clancy. He's one of those authors whose books I've seen thousands of times but never managed to read, and considering his volume of work I'm surprised there aren't more adaptations of most of his novels.