Ubisoft Motion Pictures has announced that Stephen Gaghan will write and direct The Division, its big screen adaptation of the Tom Clancy game.

Gaghan is known for writing Traffic, and for writing and directing Syriana. Traffic won an Academy Award, while Syriana was nominated. Gaghan is the third Academy recognized name attached to the project, as Ubisoft had previously confirmed Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain to star. The two were also said to be helping develop the picture through their own production companies.

"The game has been an enormous success, in large part due to the visual landscape they created, their vision of a mid-apocalyptic Manhattan," Gaghan said in a statement. "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."

The Division has the player assume the role of a sleeper agent for the Strategic Homeland Division, activated to help restore order to Manhattan after a super-virus decimates the population and throws society into chaos. It broke sales records for Ubisoft at launch.

Ubisoft has been gathering impressive talent for its motion picture studio, most recently bringing Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in to headline its Assassin's Creed adaptation. That film was panned, though, partly for being too overcomplex with its mythology. As a simpler story more akin to a standard post-apocalypse film, The Division might have a better chance.