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Ten years after being announced, the film adaptation of Watch Dogs has had an exciting update.
The movie starring The Hunger Games' Tom Blyth and Talk To Me's Sophie Wilde, director Mathieu Turi has confirmed filming has begun for the production.
He took to Instagram to share an image of a clapperboard from the movie, featuring its title alongside a hashtag in the caption for "Watch Dogs movie".
Ubisoft announced a Watch Dogs film back in 2013, but details of the project remained sparse until Deadline reported last month that Blyth and Wilde were set to star.
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The first game, released in 2014, tells the story of Aiden Pearce, a hacker and vigilante hellbent on revenge following the death of his niece.
Watch Dogs 2 followed in 2016. Set in a fictionalised San Francisco, the game followed hacker Marcus Holloway, who was punished for a crime he did not commit.
A third game, Watch Dogs: Legion, was released in 2020 and took place in a futuristic, dystopian London. It followed a local branch of DedSec forced to clear their name after being framed for a series of bombings in the city.
It is unclear if the film adaptation will follow the plots of the popular games series, or if it will tell the story of a brand new hacker entirely.
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A Watch Dogs film was first hinted at in 2012, a whole two years before the first game was released.
Rumours began as the publisher registered four new web domains related to a Watch Dogs movie, including WatchDogsmovie.com, WatchDogsthemovie.com, Watch-Dogsmovie.com and Watch-Dogsthemovie.com.
Variety then reported in 2013 that Ubisoft had plans for a Watch Dogs film as well as big-screen adaptations of Far Cry and Rabbids.
The publication at the time said Ubisoft would retain creative control in its movie division for all the films and finance the development of the scripts.
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