The Division Film Starring Jake Gyllenhaal Hires Red Notice Director
Previous director David Leitch had to step down.
Red Notice director, Rawson Marshall Thurber, has stepped in to replace David Leitch as the director fof The Division movie.
This news comes by way of Deadline, which reports Leitch, who is perhaps best known as the director of Deadpool 2, had to step down as director of Netflix's Division movie due to scheduling conflicts with his current project, Bullet Train.
Thurber, who also directed Skyscraper and Dodgeball, has stepped in to fill the role and will also co-write the script with Ellen Shanman.
Leitch will remain attached to the movie as a producer.
Netflix purchased film rights to Tom Clancy's The Division back in 2019 and it was announced at E3 that year with Leitch on board to direct. He said at the time that he planned to "break the video game curse" with this movie and that chance to do so is still there — just not as a director.
The Division stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain.
The story of this film is set to follow the general events of Ubisoft's first Division game released in 2016, which follows Division agents activated to take back New York City after it is razed by a virus spread through paper money distributed on Black Friday.
Thurber's Bad Version production company will produce the film alongside Ubisoft Film and Television, Leitch and Kelly McCormick's 87North Productions, Gyllenhaal's Nine Stories, and Chastain's Freckle Films.
The Division was a movie that was supposed to release before the end of the last decade, but it joins 32 other films not yet released that were supposed to be out before 2021. It's not the only Ubisoft property being adapted for film for Netflix as Detective Pikachu director, Rob Letterman, is set to direct a Beyond Good and Evil movie for the streaming service.
Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.
