Jake Gyllenhaal To Star In The Division Videogame Adaptation

Perhaps Jake Gyllenhaal feels he’s got some unfinished business with videogame-to-movie adaptations, as he’s signed up to star in another one. Last time he took on an Ubisoft game, with Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time, it turned out to be one of the biggest box of flops of all time. Now he’s hoping to have more luck with a movie based on Tom Clancy’s The Division, according to Variety.

The game is a ‘the third-person shooter is set in a dystopian New York City in the aftermath of a smallpox pandemic. The player, who is an agent of the Strategic Homeland Division, commonly referred to as simply “The Division,” is tasked with helping to rebuild the Division’s operations in Manhattan, investigating the nature of the outbreak and combating criminal activity in its wake.’

Ubisoft must think they’ve got a good chance with a movie version, as the game is their fastest selling title of all time, reportedly shifting $330 million worth of copies in just five days. It is part of the company’s attempts to turn the reputation of videogame-to-movie titles around, with high-profile films such as Assassin’s Creed starring Michael Fassbender and Splinter Cell starring Tom Hardy also in the works.

At the moment, the plans for The Division are in the early stages, with Ubisoft currently looking for a writer for the movie.