The Watch Dogs movie has finally wrapped filming

Nearly a decade after it was first announced, Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs movie has finally wrapped filming.

The start of filming in July was announced with a set photo captioned: “Lights_Camera_Action.exe”.

The ending was celebrated in a similar manner, only this time the set photo was accompanied by the text: “run film_wrapped.exe(#watchdogsmovie.mp4) … >Film recording complete!”

As Tom summarized for us when filming began over the summer, Ubisoft has been keeping details of the film’s plot under wraps, and for years there has been little movement on plans to adapt the hacking-focused, high-tech, open-world franchise for the big screen.

But earlier this year, things finally seemed to be moving forward with a report via Deadline that the project would be helmed by director Mathieu Turi (currently adapting A Plague Tale for television), working from a screenplay by Christie LeBlanc – the writer behind Netflix’s 2021 French sci-fi thriller Oxygen. Talk to Me actor Sophie Wilde and Hunger Games prequel film star Tom Blyth are thought to be starring.

It’s not yet clear whether this Watch Dogs film will be an original story or based on one of the three main Watch Dogs games released so far: the gritty Chicago-set original starring gruff hacker Aiden Pearce, the sunnier San Francisco-set sequel starring a youthful Marcus Holloway, or the gritty Watch Dogs Legion set in post-Brexit London and released in 2020.