Netflix is getting into the video game adaptation business!
The streaming service has acquired rights to The Division, Ubisoft Motion Pictures’ adaptation of its hit video game that has Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star.
On top of that, David Leitch, the director behind Deadpool 2 and the upcoming Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, has been helmed to direct.
The deal was announced onstage Monday at E3 during Ubisoft’s presentation. The Division has been in development with some time, with Chastain joining in 2016 and Leitch following in 2018. 2016’s Tom Clancy’s The Division is set in
dystopian New York City after a smallpox pandemic. In the third-person shooter game, the player is an agent of the Strategic Homeland Division, aka The Division, and is searching for the origins of the outbreak.
Netflix is looking to end a streak of poor films within the video game adaptation genre.