Plans for a live-action collection primarily based on Ubisoft franchise Driver have been shelved, the corporate has confirmed.
Nonetheless, the corporate has claimed it’s nonetheless planning initiatives associated to the collection, regardless of no main recreation launch in over a decade.
Ubisoft introduced again in 2021 that it had partnered with upstart streaming service Binge for the collection. Nonetheless, the corporate instructed Recreation File on Friday that it’s not shifting forward with the corporate.
The invention was made after Ubisoft disclosed that one in every of its film/video-related subsidiaries, Hotrod Tanner LLC – named after the protagonist for the Driver collection – was dissolved in January.
“We’re not shifting ahead with our partnership with Binge for a Driver collection,” a Ubisoft spokesperson instructed the publication.
There hasn’t been a brand new mainline entry within the Driver online game collection since 2011’s Driver: San Francisco. Nonetheless, Ubisoft instructed Recreation File it nonetheless has plans for the collection regardless of the live-action roadblock.
“We’re actively engaged on different thrilling initiatives associated to the franchise and might’t wait to share extra info sooner or later,” the rep mentioned
Earlier this month, Ubisoft confirmed that manufacturing has begun on a Watch Canine film, starring Sophie Wilde (Discuss to Me) and Tom Blyth (Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes), and directed by Mathieu Turi (The Deep Darkish).
