Today, Netflix and Ubisoft announced they have finally greenlit their long-in-development Assassin’s Creed live-action TV series. The series was originally announced back in 2020 before entering development hell for 5 years. The proposed series had gone through multiple creative teams before landing on new showrunners Roberto Patino (HBO’s DMZ) and David Wiener (Halo):
“We’ve been fans of ‘Assassin’s Creed’ since its release in 2007. Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that ‘Assassin’s Creed’ opens to us. 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. We’ve got an amazing team behind us with the folks at Ubisoft and our champions at Netflix, and we’re committed to creating something undeniable for fans all over the planet.”
The series has set Gerard Guillemot, Margaret Boykin, and Austin Dill of Ubisoft Film & Television to serve as executive producers. The official logline reads “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.” Michael Fassbender appeared in an Assassin’s Creed live-action movie in 2016, which was supposed to launch a trilogy set in different time periods but it was ultimately cancelled.
Assassin’s Creed has no set release date
Source: Variety
