Feature filmmaker John McTiernan (Die Hard, Predator, The Hunt for Red October) directed this short entitled Ruthless to promote Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Wildlands game, a new game that’s sprung forth from Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon.
Created by DDB Paris, Ruthless takes viewers deep into the Ghost Recon Wildlands game’s story which finds Bolivians in the grip of the merciless Santa Blanca cartel. Through a series of riveting vignettes, we see the suffering of the innocent people and, through their eyes, we understand the need for justice. Ruthless is as human as it is brutal, a glimpse of the world you enter as one of the game’s Ghosts, members of an army special forces unit, as well as the people you will be helping and the deadly enemies that you will face.
Ruthless is the second film in the Ghost Recon Wildlands campaign. Red Dot, a teaser released earlier this year, was also created by DDB Paris and directed by McTiernan. While the first installment showed the brutal and merciless efficiency of the Ghosts, Ruthless shows us why they are so direly needed and why, for the cartel’s victims, they are salvation incarnate. The connection between the two films and their stories is further strengthened by details in each film referencing the other–such as the conversation among the narcos in Red Dot echoing the events occurring in the latest release. Together they serve as prequels to the game, teasing consumers to come and discover the world of Ghost Recon Wildlands, which launches March 7.
