A live-action TV series based on Assassin's Creed has received the green light from Netflix, and the streaming company will begin to set its plans for the show in motion.
More than five years since it was reported Netflix had plans to adapt the Ubisoft open world franchise, multiple creative teams have reportedly come and gone, with Robert Patino and David Wiener now set to produce the series. The former produced Westworld and Sons of Anarchy, while the latter worked on Fear the Walking Dead, Homecoming, and the Halo TV show.
The TV series is "centered on the secret war between two shadowy factions — one set on determining mankind’s future through control and manipulation, while the other fights to preserve free will. The series follows its characters across pivotal historical events as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny."
With the video game entries covering so many different time periods, it's unclear what time period the TV show will take place in, or whether it'll follow an established Assassin's Creed character.
On today's announcement, Patino and Wiener jointly said they're excited and humbled by the opportunity to adapt the game series into a TV show. "Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour and the thrills is a baseline for the most essential kind of human story — about people searching for purpose, struggling with questions of identity and destiny and faith. It is about power and violence and sex and greed and vengeance. But more than anything, this is a show about the value of human connection, across cultures, across time."
Ubisoft film and television lead Margaret Boykin then added: "We look forward to delivering an experience that speaks to the heart of what fans love about ‘Assassin’s Creed,’ while introducing its unforgettable worlds and timeless themes to new audiences worldwide."
This isn't the first time a live-action adaptation of the Assassin's Creed franchise has been attempted, as a 2016 movie starring Michael Fassbender also used the series as the basis for a film. It received a poor critical reception, however, with a 36 rating on Metacritic.
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[source variety.com]
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Ubisoft will do anything but give us a new damn Rayman game.
Note: I know that Ubisoft announced that a new Rayman was in the works, but considering the fact that this is the company that is infamous for cancelling projects and having them be in development hell (Skull and Bones, Beyond Good & Evil 2), I'm not believing anything they say until we see a title, a release date, and footage. Maybe.
Can't wait, and I hope it is canonical!!! I will watch even if it doesn't, but canonical is better in my opinion.
Anyone remember the dumpster fire that was the AC movie..... look how they massacred my boy Michael Fassbender.
Edit: Does anyone remember those really cool mini live action movies for the build up to AC2, I thought they were very good!!
It’s just surely a slam dunk that seems to be impossible for writers to get right. It’s Da Vinci Code with stabby bits. That’s not impossible.
Would be cool if it were almost an anthology series - overarching modern day plot, but each episode or few episodes were focused on different periods of history. I could see that getting too expensive, though.
Honestly, I can see how AC would make a good TV show, far better than a movie.
I enjoyed the movie. But then I read a review from someone who'd never played the game. They had tons of questions. I realized that they were legit questions that I only knew the answers to because I'd played the games. So yeah, it didn't do the job. Maybe this will.
@wildcat_kickz I was thinking something along those lines, but not anthology though. Highlander tv show had a lot of flashback episodes while taking place mostly in the present. This one would be more in the past but grounded in whatever passes for the present.
Unless by anthology you meant episodic like Quantum Leap, I still get confused when the UK crew call seasons of a tv show "series".
I hadn't thought about the cost, that could hold them back, having to do ancient Greece, Italy, Japan, Egypt or wherever. Maybe each season is 1 country to cut down on costs?
The movie did suck though. Not sure how or why it was so bad. It released only a few years after Prince of Persia Sands of Time, which I thought was pretty good, and they basically took that same movie but made it such.
This could be good. On a tv budget kind of way like the Arrowverse shows. Or hopefully better like The Witcher and Sandman, both on NF. I'd watch, and I don't even play the games.
@Oram77
I do indeed remember both of them. The AC2 lead up movies were surprisingly great for what they were!
As for the movie, I actually think they had a decent idea but just botched the execution completely. In particular with the action scenes. They kept jumping back and forth between the real world and the animus world which made it very disorienting for no real reason. Plus the story was completely forgettable.
Hopefully the Netflix show will take some inspiration from the AC2 movie. If they do that then I'd could see this show being pretty good.
@wildcat_kickz I was thinking this by each season being a different time period
I never particularly liked the very first AC game. And did not play any more of them, until AC Origins. Which I love, due to the attention to detail, the historical accuracy of Ancient Egypt.
Not having the same interest in the later, new time-periods, I have actually skipped all of the other new games. So Origins remains the only AC game I have played, and I have done so several times.
Perhaps this is the reason that I really enjoy the movie, because I have little interest in the convoluted backstory of AC lore, and because game-wise, I only wanted to enjoy exploring Egypt at the time of the Pharaohs.
Actually, I think that one of the stuntmen on the movie might actually hold a world record, for the longest continual swan-dive. A free-fall of 125 feet, lasting four seconds.
Still waiting for a 60 fps update for the Ezio collection.
@Scarface82G1 any day now🤣
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