Took its damn time!
Almost five years after it was first announced that negotiations were happening with the streaming titan, it’s being reported that Netflix has finally greenlit a live action Assassin’s Creed series.
During its five years of gestating the series has undergone a number of changes to finally get the green light approval from the execs at Netflix. The current show runners Roberto Latino and David Wiener have expressed how much working on the series has been a pure delight:
“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.”
No news on what or who the show will focus on has yet been disclosed, whether that be a new lead character in a new time period, or portraying the story of a beloved character from the games like Ezio, Edward or Bayek. All we have so far is the shows official longline which will reveal no details to fans of the game series:
“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 video game adaptations finally getting good and faithful game to screen translations with the likes of The Last of Us, Arcane, and Fallout, here’s hoping Assassin’s Creed lands in their camp of quality. As opposed to the Halo, Monster Hunter and Resident Evil camp…
