There's been little news regarding the live-action Watch Dogs film since it was first announced nearly two years ago, but actor Tom Blyth (The Gilded Age, The Hunger Games: the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) has provided a brief update.
Speaking to ScreenRant to promote his upcoming prison film, Wasteman, Blyth shared, "I think the way they wrote that script...even though I'm not particularly a gamer myself, I knew the games. They took it, and they made it about the world we live in today. I will say that I do think that the film really tears apart this world we live in today, which is this online [setting], the dangers of everything being interconnected and online in the way that the games do."
Blyth is co-starring in the film alongside Sophie Wilde (Talk to Me) and Australian actress Markella Kavenagh (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power).
In a previous press release from 2024, Ubisoft commented that the upcoming adaptation would be, "an original story set in the Watch Dogs universe and is slated to begin production later this summer."
French genre filmmaker Mathieu Turi (The Deep Dark) is attached to direct the Watch Dogs adaptation. The script was written by Christie LeBlanc (Oxygen), with revisions from Victoria Bata (Fate: The Winx Saga).
On the production side, New Regency’s Yariv Milchan and Natalie Lehmann are set to produce, alongside Margaret Boykin from Ubisoft Film & Television.
Filming on the Watch Dogs movie reportedly began in July 2024, with principal photography wrapping in September 2024. The film then underwent significant reshoots at some point in 2025, as confirmed by Blyth in a previous interview.
Furthermore, there's still no finished cut and no official release date for the film, prompting alarm bells from fans of the action-adventure RPG. There's even some online chatter that the film might head to streaming rather than receive a theatrical release.
The Watch Dogs franchise is currently in something of a holding pattern. After two well-received entries, the series lost momentum following the release of Watch Dogs: Legion in 2020.
That entry allowed players to take control of any NPC and make them the primary protagonist, a departure from the two previous entries that had a specified, main lead.
As of early 2026, reports from industry insiders suggest Ubisoft has effectively placed the IP on time-out amid a broader company restructuring. According to those accounts, Legion’s disappointing commercial performance played a major role in the decision to shelve further development