Oscar winning writer Stephen Gaghan has been confirmed as the writer and director for Ubisoft Motion Pictures' adaption of The Division, reports Variety.

Gaghan won Oscar for Best Writing on the 2001 film Traffic, and more recently worked on Activision's Call of Duty: Ghosts and the Matthew McConaughey film Gold.

The movie will star Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain.

"I’m excited to work with Ubisoft Motion Pictures and collaborate with their team at Massive Entertainment to bring ‘The Division’ to the big screen. They’re great guys, exceptionally creative, and willing to take risks," Gaghan said. "The game has been an enormous success, in large part due to the visual landscape they created, their vision of a mid-apocalyptic Manhattan. It’s immersive, wonderfully strange, and yet familiar, filled with possibilities. It’s also remarkable to be able to collaborate with Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal early in the process. We all feel the story Ubisoft created is more relevant than ever."

Ubisoft will shop the project to studios.

Source: Variety