Tom Clancy's The Division has been enjoying tremendous success in sales, and Ubisoft is hoping to capitalize on the game's popularity by adapting it into a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
Aside from headlining the adaptation, the actor is also on board as producer, according to sources. No other details have been revealed about the project, but the addition of more cast members and a writer to pen the script will give Ubisoft what it needs to present the movie to studios.
At the moment, the game publisher is working with Fox and New Regency on Assassin's Creed, which stars Michael Fassbender and is currently in post-production, and Paramount on Splinter Cell, which stars Tom Hardy.
There may be different angles that can be explored by The Division's movie version but at the heart of it will follow the basic premise of the game: a third-person shooter set in a dystopian New York City reeling from a smallpox pandemic. Then, like the players, Gyllenhaal will take on the role of an agent for the Strategic Homeland Division (The Division) tasked with helping rebuild operations in Manhattan while fighting off criminal activity and investigating the cause of the outbreak.
The Division has been warmly received by the gaming community, raking in an estimated $330 million around the world on its first week alone to become Ubisoft's best-selling game. Unfortunately, the game is not without problems, the most recent of which is the delay of the Clear Sky challenge mode.
Ubisoft Massive releases a patch every week to fix problems in the game, and servers were shut down on June 2 to make way for maintenance. However, patch deployment was unsuccessful, meaning The Division will remain in the same state that it was in last week.
With challenge mode delayed, problems like High Value targets not resetting properly and players involuntarily being teleported back to checkpoints will persist until June 9 or until Ubisoft makes an announcement about the patch.
It sure is tricky when a patch released to fix bugs is bugged itself.
Tom Clancy's The Division came out in March.
