I'm not quite sure who among us is eagerly awaiting the big screen adaptation of Ubisoft's open world hack-a-thon Watch Dogs. Even me, even considering I liked the first Watch Dogs and liked the third Watch Dogs and have a few pleasant if foggy memories of the second Watch Dogs. I'm sure I'll watch the movie out of curiosity (or because my boss makes me review it) but it does feel like it's arriving about a decade too late.
That's because it's arriving about a decade too late. The Watch Dogs movie was announced back in 2013, the same year as the Harlem Shake, and Beyonce lip-syncing at Obama's first inauguration, and the Game of Thrones show's Red Wedding. That's how damn long ago this movie was announced.
A bit to unpack there. Reshoots mean the production was wrapped at one point, but it's impossible to say why more filming had to be done—and it doesn't necessarily mean there's anything wrong with the project. My understanding is that reshoots are pretty common during post-production.
It is interesting that Blythe said the film is "not the game" and that it "feels like its own thing," though. To me, that says this adaptation is gonna be heavy on the adaptation, if you know what I mean. I'm open to the movie straying far from the games—I think a bit too much fan service can be a terrible thing in movies—but I also do want to see a whole bunch of game stuff in this movie, too. If Blythe doesn't use his phone to hijack self-driving cars and steer them into fire hydrants and telephone poles just for funsies, I'm going to be severely disappointed.
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