Following the critical
and commercial success of Tom Clancy's The Division, videogame developer
Ubisoft is currently developing a big screen adaptation of the property with Jake
Gyllenhall both starring and producing through his Nine Stories production
shingle.
The Division recently
became Ubisoft's fastest-selling game with early reports revealing that it had
reached $330 million dollars in just five days.
"We live in a
complex world. The more advanced it gets, the more vulnerable it becomes. We've
created a house of cards: remove just on, and everything falls apart.
Black Friday - a devastating
pandemic sweeps through New York City, and one by one, basic services fail. In
only days, without food or water, society collapses into chaos. The Division,
an autonomous unit of tactical agents, is activated. Leading seemingly ordinary
lives among us, these agents are trained to operate independently in order to
save society."
In the game you the
player, an agent of the Division, are tasked with helping to rebuild the
Division's center of operations in Manhattan, while at the same time investigate
the nature of the smallpox outbreak as well as the resulting criminal activity.
The Division is Ubisoft's
latest port of one of their game properties to the big screen. The studio also
has Assassin's Creed starring Michael Fassbender in post-production, and
Splinter Cell starring Tom Hardy in development.
For Gyllenhall, The
Division is his second time starring in a movie based on a video game. In 2010
the actor played Dastan, the titular prince in The Prince of Persia: The Sands
of Time.
Source - Variety
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