Ubisoft announced this week that the Watch Dogs movie is now filming, but will it be as good as other recent video game adaptations?
The past few years have completely changed our perception of video game adaptations. Once seen as cynical cash grabs or inevitable disasters, video game movies and shows have started to reach the same level of mainstream success as comic book adaptations. Despite the notable sea change, we still have yet to see a live-action video game movie receive any critical acclaim. Could the upcoming Watch Dogs movie be the first to reach that peak?
Watch Dogs is an open-world video game series about hackers who find themselves entangled in the criminal underworlds of their respective cities. Back in 2013, rumors of a Watch Dogs film began to swirl online, and a year later, Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese (Zombieland, Deadpool) were hired to write a script for a movie based on Ubisoft’s first game.
