Back it early June it was revealed that despite the failure of Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time, Jake Gyllenhaal was jumping back into the video game-to-movie business with a film ased on Tom Clancy’s The Division. Now he’s got some company as THR reports that Jessica Chastain will co-star.
The game is a third-person shooter that’s set in a dystopian New York City following a smallpox pandemic. Gyllenhaal will play an agent of the Strategic Homeland Division, commonly referred to as ‘The Division’, who investigates the nature of the outbreak and combats the criminal activity that springs up in its wake. It hasn’t been revealed exactly who Chastain will play.
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.
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