Sources at Variety broke news today that among Ubisoft’s slate of game properties headed to the silver screen on the heels of Michael Fassebender in Assassin’s Creed are a Paramount-produced Splinter Cell film starring Tom Hardy, and a return to video game film adaptations for Prince of Persia actor Jake Gyllenhaal with The Division.
While he stars in the unnamed lead role, Gyllenhaal is also listed as a producer, so maybe he will have the opportunity to be more directly involved with creative decisions on the upcoming big budget film. Sources also say the studio is still looking for a writer to work on the screenplay.
Slow-burning and passionate projects like Nightcrawler and Southpaw have all but eradicated the memory of Gyllenhaal’s last outing in a video game adaptation, the unfortunately white-washed and generic Prince of Persia, so here’s hoping The Division‘s more accessible source material provides a better vehicle for games on film.
