There was an Assassin’s Creed movie that starred Michael Fassbender. I think I have seen it, but now I try to remember a single thing about it, and I start to doubt myself. Maybe I haven’t seen it? Judging by the box office, nobody else saw it either. Now I am curious to watch it, maybe for the second time. Is that a mistake?
There have been fourteen Assassin’s Creed games since the first, way back in 2007. The games have sold over 230 million copies. There were several attempts to reboot a movie based on the games, but then streaming became the obvious way to tell a better, more detailed story.
Now, Swedish filmmaker Johan Renck has been set as the director of the new adaption for Netflix.
Renck is an Emmy Award winner for his direction on Chernobyl. He has worked with Netflix before, directing both Bloodline and the Adam Sandler-led Spaceman. He directed the mini-series The Last Panthers, alongside episodes of Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead.
The Assassin’s Creed games explore the centuries-old conflict between the rival secret orders of the Assassins and the Templars. The show will use this core plot. Netflix has confirmed that it will follow the secret war between these two shadowy factions – one set on determining mankind’s future through control and manipulation, while the other fights to preserve free will.
Characters will battle across pivotal historical events as they fight to shape humanity’s destiny. Agents of both factions use a machine known as the Animus to access these key periods and place themselves in these events.
Toby Wallace (Euphoria), Lola Petticrew (Say Nothing), Zachary Hart (Slow Horses), and Laura Marcus (Death by Lightning) have been cast. Roberto Patino (Westworld, Sons of Anarchy) is showrunner alongside David Wiener (Halo, The Killing).
They also exec. produce with Gerard Guillemot, Matt O’Toole, Genevieve Jones, Margaret Boykin, and Austin Dill.
