The battle for human destiny is on.
Netflix has greenlit a live-action series based on the popular Assassin’s Creed video game, the streaming service announced Thursday.
Assassin’s Creed follows the ongoing, years-old struggle for peace between groups known as the Assassins and the Templars. The Ubisoft video-game franchise started in 2007 with the release of Assassin’s Creed and now includes 13 total video games. The most recent, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, was released in March. A film based on the game, starring Michael Fassbender, was released in 2016.
Per the official logline, the series will be a thriller following a “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.” As such, the characters will be present at major historical events “as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny.”
The series hails from Robert Patino (DMZ, Westworld) and David Wiener (Halo, Fear the Walking Dead), who will serve as co-showrunners and executive producers. Other EPs include Gerard Guillemot (Mythic Quest), Margaret Boykin (Mythic Quest), Ubisoft Film & Television’s Austin Dill and Matt O’Toole.
Netflix’s deal with Ubisoft got underway in 2020 and includes multiple Assassin’s Creed projects, including animated and anime series inspired by the games.
“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,” Wiener and Patino said in a joint statement. “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,” the statement continues. “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.”
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