Netflix Planning new Series Based on ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Games

Emmy nominees Roberto Patino and David Wiener will run the new show, which will adapt the games first launched in 2007, but the story is unknown.

Michael Fassbender in 'Assassin's Creed' (2016). Photo: 20th Century Fox.

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Netflix has plans for an ‘Assassin’s Creed’ series.
It’ll adapt the popular Ubisoft game franchise.
The games were previously turned into a movie in 2016.

2016 movie ‘Assassin’s Creed’ could well serve as a cautionary tale for those adapting video games. Despite a big name star (Michael Fassbender) and a talented director (Justin Kurzel), it didn’t catch on with critics or audiences.

That isn’t stopping Netflix from planning its own adaptation, this time as a live-action streaming series.

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The company has announced that Roberto Patino (‘Westworld’) and David Wiener (‘Halo’) are teaming up to write and produce a new show set in the world of

What’s the story of ‘Assassin’s Creed’?

Michael Fassbender in 'Assassin's Creed' (2016). Photo: 20th Century Fox.

With more than 230 million units sold, the Assassin’s Creed franchise is one of the best-selling series in video game history.

Developed and first published by Ubisoft in 2007, The franchise focuses on a centuries-long conflict between two secret organizations: the Assassins, who fight to preserve freedom and free will, and the Templars, who believe in achieving peace through control and order.

While we don’t know exactly what elements the new show will borrow, here’s what Netflix has released as the official logline:

“ ‘Assassin’s Creed’ is a high-octane thriller 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.”

‘Assassin’s Creed’ series: the showrunners speak

(L to R) Marion Cotillard, Michael Fassbender in 'Assassin's Creed' (2016). Photo: 20th Century Fox.

Here’s what Patino and Wiener have said about the series they’re developing:

“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.”