Filmmaker Stephen Gaghan has been roped in to write and direct Ubisoft's adaptation of its popular video game "The Division" starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain.
Ubisoft Motion Pictures will develop the project with Gyllenhaal's and Riva Marker's Nine Stories and Chastain's Freckle Films, reported The Wrap.
The film is set in the aftermath of a small pox pandemic in dystopian New York. In the game players attempt to rebuild, investigate and fight crime in the city.
"The game has been an enormous success, in large part due to the visual landscape they created, their vision of a mid-apocalyptic Manhattan. It's immersive, wonderfully strange, and yet familiar, filled with possibilities.
"It's also remarkable to be able to collaborate with Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal early in the process. We all feel the story Ubisoft created is more relevant than ever," Gaghan said in a statement.
Plot details of the big-screen adaptation have been kept under wraps.
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