{"id":11858,"date":"2014-04-25T22:48:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T05:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/?p=11858"},"modified":"2014-04-25T22:48:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T05:48:27","slug":"ubisoft-lands-deadpool-writers-for-watch_dogs-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=11858","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft Lands Deadpool Writers for Watch_Dogs Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Watch-Dogs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11956\" src=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Watch-Dogs-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Watch-Dogs\" width=\"548\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The screenwriting duo that has been set to pen the upcoming<em> Deadpool<\/em> movie have signed on with Ubisoft to write the <em>Watch_Dogs<\/em> movie.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch_Dogs<\/em> is an upcoming Ubisoft game about a hacker with a personal vendetta who uses the city itself against his enemies. The game has had its release date pushed back several times, which, coupled\u00a0with the fact that movie adaptions of video games have a bit of a bad name (I&#8217;m looking at you,\u00a0<em>Prince of Persia\u00a0<\/em>and <em>Doom<\/em>),\u00a0begs the question, &#8220;Is it a good idea to start working on a movie for a game that has yet to be released?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese have worked on several other projects together thus far, including\u00a0<em>Zombieland<\/em> and\u00a0<em>GI Joe: Retaliation<\/em>. Having also been announced to write the screenplay for\u00a0<em>Zombieland 2<\/em>, the team seems to have a lot on their plates.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch_Dogs<\/em> looks like it has a lot of potential to be a fantastic game, and has already received a veritable plethora of pre-release awards and nominations, so let&#8217;s hope the duo can do the game justice.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch_Dogs<\/em> (the game) is set to release on May 27th, 2014 for Xbox One, PS4, PS3, Xbox 360, PC, and WiiU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThe screenwriting duo that has been set to pen the upcoming Deadpool movie have signed on with Ubisoft to write&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=11858\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Ubisoft Lands Deadpool Writers for Watch_Dogs Movie&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[530,579,743,766],"class_list":["post-11858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-paul-wernick","tag-rhett-reese","tag-ubisoft","tag-watch-dogs","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ubisoft Lands Deadpool Writers for Watch_Dogs Movie - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=11858\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ubisoft Lands Deadpool Writers for Watch_Dogs Movie - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The screenwriting duo that has been set to pen the upcoming Deadpool movie have signed on with Ubisoft to write&hellip; 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