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Tom Blyth has found his big-screen followup to his breakout role as the young Coriolanus Snow in last year's Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in New Regency's Watch Dogs, Deadline exclusively reported.
He'll be joining Sophie Wilde in the feature adaptation of the popular Ubisoft video game of the same name. The movie will be helmed by French director Mathieu Turi from Christie LeBlanc's original draft. Victoria Bata contributed new revisions to the script.
New Regency's chairman and CEO Yariv Milchan and Motion Pictures and Television president Natalie Lehmann will produce alongside Ubisoft Film & Television chief Margaret Boykin.
From Billy the Kid to Watch Dog
Blyth currently stars as the titular character in MGM+'s Billy the Kid. He has a project in post-production, the comedy feature Bull Run as ex-pro-hockey-player-turned-junior-banker Bobby Sanders. The actor is currently working on the drama Plainclothes.
He also has two projects in pre-production. One is the thriller Wasteman and the other is Michael Winterbottom's feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms as the lead Frederic Henry.
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Watch Dogs is an action-adventure video game developed using the Disrupt game engine. The first title was released in 2014 and has three games, with the most recent published in 2020, Watch Dogs: Legion. The game has several tie-in books and comic book miniseries.
The game focuses on an open world with the player completing missions as the story progresses. The core gameplay requires to player to drive and shoot, and perform certain actions in stealth.
The game is set in fictionalized version of real-life cities and follows the player (as different hackers) with various goals to achieve. The player then becomes involved in the cities' criminal underworld. The game's villains are corrupt companies, crime bosses as well as rival hackers.
One of the goals is to take advantage of the ctOS or Central Operating system, the computing network in the game that connects all of the cities' electronic devices into a single system, which also stores citizens' personal data. The player can also access the ctOS to control different devices to use in combat, stealth and solving puzzles. The game has more than 50 million players globally.
