It's official, Netflix has confirmed Assassin's Creed will be heading to 64 AD as filming has officially begun in Rome, Italy. One of the biggest gaming franchises is arriving on Netflix and is set in the heart of the Roman Empire in a partnership with Ubisoft.
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.
The main cast for the series has also been confirmed as Lola Petticrew (Say Nothing), Toby Wallace (Euphoria Season 3), Zachary Hart (Slow Horses), Laura Marcus (Death by Lightning), Tanzyn Crawford (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), Nabhaan Rizwan (KAOS), and Claes Bang (Bad Sisters).
Noomi Rapace (Prometheus), Ramzy Bedia (Haunted Minds), Sean Harris (Mission: Impossible — Fallout), Corrado Invernizzi (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny), Sandra Guldberg-Kampp (Foundation), Youssef Kerkour (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), Mirren Mack (28 Years Later: The Bone Temple), and Louis McCartney (Stranger Things: The First Shadow) have also joined in recurring roles. No official character descriptions have been given at the time of writing.
Robert Patino (known for Westworld) and David Wiener (known for Halo) will be the series' creators, showrunners, and executive producers. In a joint statement to Tudum, Patino and Wiener shared their excitement for Netflix's new adventure:
"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 game franchise was previously adapted for theaters in 2016 in a movie starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Rampling, Brendan Gleeson, Michael K. Williams, and Jeremy Irons. Unfortunately, the movie didn't do well and only scored 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, making fans of Assassin's Creed apprehensive about Netflix's own interpretation.
At the time of writing, there is no official release date for Assassin's Creed, but production has officially begun as the Brotherhood prepares to come out of the shadows.
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