Netflix joins Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain in The Division

And yet, it actually got mentioned at E3, where everyone’s dreams of long-dormant projects come true—as long as those dreams don’t involve Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. Ubisoft didn’t offer any release info, and a subsequent Deadline story doesn’t have any further details, so now we’ll have to wait and see what Netflix is planning. It doesn’t sound like a whole lot of actual production has happened yet, though, so it could be pretty far off.

For those who haven’t jumped into The Division or its recent sequel, the game takes place in a world where a deadly virus was spread with cash on Black Friday in New York, leading the city to become quarantined. The eponymous Division is a covert group of highly trained civilian operatives who are called into action to go into the city and kill the gang members and rogue military leaders who are trying to take advantage of the chaos. The aforementioned sequel, which moves the action to Washington D.C., establishes that the country has been effectively wiped out by the virus and there’s no hope of anyone actually saving the day. Video games are fun.