Tom Blyth's Watch Dogs movie may not be a direct adaptation of the games, but the star promises it will properly capture their massive open world feel.
Development on an adaptation of the Ubisoft action-adventure franchise has kicked around Hollywood for over a decade, with the publisher having originally teamed with Deadpool duo Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, as well as Sony Pictures on the project. After years of delays, the Watch Dogs movie would finally start gaining steam in early 2024 with Mathieu Turi set to direct, Oxygen's Christie LeBlanc and Tell Me Lies' Victoria Bata writing the script, and Blyth and Talk to Me's Sophie Wilde cast in lead roles.
Now, in an interview with ScreenRant's Grant Hermanns for his prison-set thriller Wasteman, Blyth was asked for an update on the Watch Dogs movie's post-production. While careful to admit "there's not much I can say" at the time, he shared his excitement to "see the finished thing," having thus far only "seen little bits in ADR" and finding them to "look great."
Blyth did offer that the film has taken the "massive world" of the Watch Dogs games and found a way to bring them...
