Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s The Division, for all the glitches that it’s almost 10 million players are encountering, is such a big success that there are plans to expand the franchise. This time, they want to hit the big screen by having a movie version of the video game, and they plan to bring an A-list actor in the form of Jake Gyllenhaal.

Tom Clancy’s The Division is set in a dystopian New York after a smallpox pandemic. The US Homeland Division has agents in the city to help restore their operations and go against criminal activities happening in the area. With US$339 million in sales in just 5 days, The Division is Ubisoft’s fastest selling game title to date yet. Even its merchandise has been a hit with airsoft players putting together their loadout inspired by the video game.

Photo: Jake Gyllenhaal at WonderCon 2010

According to Variety which broke the story, Jake Gyllenhaal is also attached as a producer apart from being the lead star in the movie. Now they just need a writer to start writing the script before production can start.

We don’t know if this will be filmed the way how the Agent Origin Live action series were done. These were on YouTube and were made by various independent digital film making studios were done,  but watching them below should give you an idea how the movie can look like:

The big question is if The Division would be able to bring the same success to studio since video games turned into movies have turned out into disappointments. This will be Gyllenhaal’s second movie based on a video game. The first movie was the Prince of Persia which was directed by Mike Newell and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Whilst it did gross well, having a worldwide gross of US$335,154,643, making it the biggest grossing movie based on a video game, it was not successful in the USA where it failed to recover its production budget.

This is not the first movie from Ubisoft’s video game titles, there is the “Assassin’s Creed” starring Michael Fassbender that will be released ahead and also “Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell” starring Tom Hardy.

Everything’s up in the air yet as they have not pulled a production team together yet given that there is no script written yet. Just hope there will be no weird game glitches in the movie just like in the actual video game.