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[Nirolak]

This follows Michael Fassbender's Assassin's Creed and Tom Hardy's Splinter Cell.

Following record-breaking sales, Ubisoft is already developing a movie based on its video game “Tom Clancy’s the Division,” and now looks to have an A-list star to lead the film.

Sources tell Variety that Jake Gyllenhaal is attached to star in the pic based on the hit video game that has already become Ubisoft’s fastest-selling product.

Gyllenhaal is also attached as a producer, and the studio is currently looking for a writer to pen the adaptation. Ubisoft could not be reached for comment.

Source: http://variety.com/2016/film/news/jake-gyllenhaal-the-division-movie-1201742202/

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

it's just two hours of him standing in queue

 

[strafer]

Tom Hardy still attached to Splinter Cell? Holy fuck, amazing guy.

any other actor would have left a long time ago.

Still remember the teaser they had for the movie on the Chaos Theory DVD.

That was in 2007.

 

[Exploratory]

Now this would be interesting. The Division isn't as story focused as AC.

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

Tom Hardy still attached to Splinter Cell? Holy fuck, amazing guy.

any other actor would have left a long time ago.

Still remember the teaser they had for the movie on the Chaos Theory DVD.

That was in 2007.

or perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before sneaking out of a plane

 

[Calm Mind]

Only to be forgotten by the eventual Overwatch movie.

 

[VeryGooster]

Idris Elba for Bullet King

 

[Nirolak]

I think the oddest part is that The Division is built like a ho-hum network television show crime serial as opposed to a film.

I'm guessing that's harder to get greenlit though than just signing an A-list actor by giving them producer oversight and then taking it to studios.

 

[strafer]

or perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before sneaking out of a plane

 

[jabberwocker]

and yet there is still no metal gear movie.......

 

[InsaneTiger]

He's just gonna stand silent while Wang talks about missing being out in the field.

 

[Warxard]

it's just two hours of him standing in queue

He's just gonna stand silent while Wang talks about missing being out in the field.

Damn this IP sounds Boring

 

[VeryGooster]

I think the oddest part is that The Division is built like a ho-hum network television show crime serial as opposed to a film.

I'm guessing that's harder to get greenlit though than just signing an A-list actor by giving them producer oversight and then taking it to studios.

Yeah I would maybe have gauged more interest as some kind of miniseries. Part of the game's... charm, for me anyway, narrative wise were those little Echo things with people's backstories before and during the whole viral outbreak.

 

[perineumlick]

You know, I can see that actually being pretty cool. I'm more hyped for a Hardy led Splinter Cell though.

 

[InsaneTiger]

Damn this IP sounds Boring

You fight a helicopter with a machine gun.

 

[SolidSnakex]

and yet there is still no metal gear movie.......

There was supposed to be one at some point. But most game movies never actually happen. They're picked up and then enter a state of limbo for the rest of time. I mean, there was also sup[posed to be a Crazy Taxi movie.

 

[Calm Mind]

and yet there is still no metal gear movie.......

The games themselves aren't cohesive enough to hold together the dwindling fanbase they have now. How do you think a movie of that would do any better?

 

[Kindekuma]

And ScarJo will be casted as Faye Lau.

 

[FriedConsole]

it's just two hours of him standing in queue

What are you talking about? I finished the game and I don't remember this part. I am never just waiting around. Matchmaking never takes long and you can play while the matchmaking is going on.

 

[strafer]

What are you talking about? I finished the game and I don't remember this part.

it's just a terrible meme. Dont worry about it.

 

[blakep267]

Unsaid it in the other thread but the initial set up and premise of the division was pretty interesting imo. Basically locked in a city fighting your way through. So id be interested in this

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

What are you talking about? I finished the game and I don't remember this part. I am never just waiting around. Matchmaking never takes long and you can play while the matchmaking is going on.

when the game launched there was an issue with a queue at the first table

 

[Onemic]

So they're gonna make a movie based on killing civilians?

 

[AusRoachman]

Whilst I loved the world and all the little side stories and memories I'm not sure how you make a movie out of it .

Especially since the division aren't deployed until after the outbreak has happened.

I suppose it could have you tracing back its origins etc .

 

[Orca]

I think the oddest part is that The Division is built like a ho-hum network television show crime serial as opposed to a film.

I'm guessing that's harder to get greenlit though than just signing an A-list actor by giving them producer oversight and then taking it to studios.

I figured it for a movie that goes through agent activation, gathering a team, finding clues to what happened while encountering rioters/cleaners. They find the guy, but miss him in the movies mid-section shootout and chase, then spend the rest pursuing him while trying to assist recovery efforts leading to a finale chase/shootout where he gets away or is revealed to have been just part of a larger effort as the screen fades to black. Post credit scene shows a guy in his makeshift lab making more virus with a marked up map of Boston or Paris or something nearby.

 

[blakep267]

So they're gonna make a movie based on killing civilians?

I would think it would be more killing rogue agents and the last man brigade or whoever they are called. Maybe the cleaners. But not just shooting every looter or the street

 

[RS4-]

Now they can have all those minorities in the first 1/4 of the film; you know, the thieves, the thugs, the gangs.

White hollywood wins.

 

[potatohead]

The MGS movie is better anyway.

 

[Tecnniqe]

Can i get the Iconic Bluray Edition?

 

[Xaero Gravity]

Tom Hardy still attached to Splinter Cell? Holy fuck, amazing guy.

any other actor would have left a long time ago.

Still remember the teaser they had for the movie on the Chaos Theory DVD.

That was in 2007.

Wasn't that 2005? I remember being stupidly excited for it for some weird reason.

 

[red731]

And ScarJo will be casted as Faye Lau.

Chuckled at this. Lol

 

[Tevren]

Guess I'll use Portable Cover to wall hack into this without paying.

 

[Cartho]

I can just see it now:

Jake standing over a workbench, sewing a backpack together made from scraps of material that he stole from a less well armed man in the street. After much lens flare and quick shots of the needle moving in and out of the thread, the backpack is complete. Jake swings it onto his shoulder without taking his other one off first. He vanishes and the film fades to black. The end.

 

[Souldestroyer Reborn]

Probably just be some guy throwing mobile cover down everywhere trying to break down walls.

Glitches. Glitches galore.