Netflix’s The Division movie starring Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal gets new director

Netflix’s The Division video game movie starring Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal gets new director

Netflix snatched up the film rights to the popular video game Tom Clancy’s The Division in June 2019.

And on Thursday, it was announced that the still-in-the-works movie with Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal attached has got a new director.

Rawson Marshall Thurber is replacing original helmer David Leitch, Deadline.com reported.

Update: Netflix’s video game movie The Division has a new director. The long-in-the-works project will be now be helmed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, Deadline.com reported Thursday

Thurber is coming off another Netflix project Red Notice starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot which will be released on the streamer later this year.

Leitch, whose credits include John Wick, Deadpool 2 and Hobbs & Shaw, had to drop out of The Division due to filming for Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train.  

Chastain, 43, was most recently seen in Ava, It Chapter Two and X-Men: Dark Phoenix. 

Gyllenhaal’s last big screen outing was Spider-Man: Far From Home and the actor, 40, is currently filming Michael Bay’s new thriller Ambulance.

The Division stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain

The film centers on a group of civilians attempting to save what remain of society after a virus wipes out millions of people

A-listers: The Division stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain and centers on a group of civilians attempting to save what remain of society after a virus wipes out millions of people

The Division is set in the near future and starts when a virus spread via paper money on Black Friday decimates New York City and kills millions.

Within a few short weeks, what’s left of society is in chaos and a small band of civilians trained for catastrophe attempt to save who and what remains. 

The role-playing game became the fast-selling IP in history upon its release in 2016.

The Division 2 was released in March 2019.

New helmer: Thurber is coming off another Netflix project Red Notice starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot. He is replacing David Leitch, who had to drop out of The Division due to filming for Brad Pitt's Bullet Train.

New helmer: Thurber is coming off another Netflix project Red Notice starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot. He is replacing David Leitch, who had to drop out of The Division due to filming for Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train.