Michael Bay’s production company, Platinum Dunes, is entering into a deal with Ubisoft to bring a live action film adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon to the big screen.
Variety is reporting that Bay will produce the film with Warner Bros. and could wind up in the director’s chair on the project – a decision that would not come as a surprise.
In an interview with Variety, Ubisoft CEO Jean Julien Barronet called Bay a “master at action movies,” when speaking about the decision to collaborate the Transformers director.
Bay, who is busy working on the fourth installment of the Transformers series, adds Ghost Recon to the long list of productions he has on the horizon, including a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles update.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon chronicles the missions of a future-set Special Forces unit of the U.S. Army as they head president’s orders around the world. Since 2001, more than 24 million Ghost Recon games have sold.
This would mark the first collaboration between Bay and Warner Bros., as well as Ubisoft. The game publishing company made a landmark decision a while back by taking control of film rights to its games.
The move was made in an effort to develop film material that kept the integrity of the source material and satisfied loyal fans. This venture with Bay is the third game-to-film project the company has lined up.
Barronet explained the motive behind the move, saying, “When we started Ubisoft we wanted to be able to maintain creative control of our franchise …we wanted to be in a situation where we’re not making mainstream movies but movies that can respect the DNA of our game franchises. Today it’s real.”
A film version of Assassin’s Creed produced by and starring Michael Fassbender has a scheduled release date of Memorial Day 2015. A Splinter Cell movie reportedly starring Tom Hardy is also planned. Both films are being distributed by Twentieth Century Fox.