EXCLUSIVE: Australian actress Markella Kavenagh (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) will star alongside Tom Blyth and Sophie Wilde in New Regency‘s suspense thriller Watch Dogs, based mostly on the bestselling Ubisoft online game franchise, which wrapped manufacturing over the summer season.
Details as to Kavenagh’s function are underneath wraps. Little is thought in regards to the movie’s plot, apart from that it'll function an authentic story set throughout the widespread sport universe.
Mathieu Turi, the esteemed French style helmer behind 2023’s The Deep Dark, directed from a script by Victoria Bata, which was based mostly on a narrative by Christie LeBlanc. New Regency’s Chairman and CEO Yariv Milchan and President of Motion Pictures and Television, Natalie Lehmann, produced alongside Margaret Boykin, Head of Content at Ubisoft Film & Television.
Debuting in 2014, Watch Dogs is an action-adventure sport immersing gamers on the earth of expert hackers who use expertise to fight oppressive forces controlling main cities the world over. Set in near-future variations of cities like Chicago, San Francisco and London, the video games’ setting is constructed round a fictionalized surveillance system recognized as ctOS (Central Operating System), which controls every little thing from visitors lights to public transportation and safety cameras, permitting lead character Aiden Pearce to hack into numerous elements of the town to collect info, full missions, and evade legislation enforcement.
With over 50 million gamers worldwide, the franchise expanded with Watch Dogs 2 and Watch Dogs: Legion in 2016 and 2020, respectively. So far, it’s additionally prolonged its attain through assorted books and comics.
Best recognized for her function as Harfoot Nori Brandyfoot in Prime Video’s fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which returned for its second season in August, Kavenagh made her display screen debut in Foxtel’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, alongside Natalie Dormer. In tv, she’s additionally been seen on BBC’s The Cry, as effectively as Stan’s Romper Stomper, The Gloaming and Bad Behaviour.
Previously, Kavenagh has additionally appeared in Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang and Katie Found’s coming-of-age pic My First Summer. The actress is repped by Curtis Brown Group within the UK, Shanahan Management in Australia, UTA, and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.
