It seems like Netflix’s live-actionAssassin’s Creedseries is finally moving forward.
It was first teased that a live-action show based on the series was in the worksalmost five years ago, but no further details were revealed at the time, and before that, there were talks ofan animated series from Adi Shankar.
Since then, things have been pretty quiet on that front, aside from news coming out in 2023 that Jeb Stuartwas no longer working as showrunner on the series, leaving it in limbo.
Now (reported byVariety),the series has been officially greenlit and is finally going ahead with production,this time withWestworld’s Roberto Patino and the Halo TV series’ David Wienerat the head as creators, showrunners, and executive producers.
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“We’ve been fans of ‘Assassin’s Creed’ since its release in 2007,” said Patino and Wiener. “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. And it’s about what we stand to lose as a species, when those connections break. – Roberto Patino and David Wiener
Aside from Patino and Wiener, we also know that Watchmen’s Claire Kiechel and The Affair’s Jaquén Castellanos are on board as co-executive producers, as well as Station Eleven’s Emily St. John Mandel, A League of Their Own’s Sanaz Toossi, and Sam Reynolds, David Goldberg, and Tom Hemmings.
Also on the project as executive producers are Ubisoft’s film and television division’s Gerard Guillemot, Margaret Boykin, and Austin Dill, as well as Matt O’Toole.
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It’s still unannounced, but more and more info are leaking out.
This wouldn’t be the first live-action Assassin’s Creed adaptation to make it to release, since the series gota film adaptation with Michael Fassbenderback in 2016 that was, to put it lightly, not well received.
However, certain live-action video game adaptations have seen incredible success, the biggest examples beingHBO’s The Last of Us seriesandAmazon’s Fallout series, and Netflix themselves have seensome strong results with video game adaptations.
That’s to say nothing of recent video game movie adaptations, with evenThe Legend of Zelda going the live-action routefor its movie.
We still don’t know much else about the details of Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed series, including how it’ll approach the series’ history-spanning narrative or what characters it’ll focus on, or when we can expect it to release.
Still, though, it seems like this attempt at adapting the franchise actually has a decent chance to be successful, so hopefully they’ll learn from the series’ past mistakes and get it right this time.
