Netflix’s planned live-action TV series adaptation of the “Assassin’s Creed” gaming franchise is back on the front burner.
At last report back in early 2023, the series lost its showrunner Jeb Stuart (“Vikings: Valhalla”), who put his exit down to an executive regime change at the streamer.
Now, the project is moving forward with the streamer officially giving it the green light and announcing that Roberto Patino (“Westworld,” “Sons of Anarchy”) and David Wiener (“Halo,” “The Killing”) are serving as creators, showrunners and executive producers.
Gerard Guillemot, Matt O’Toole, Margaret Boykin and Austin Dill will also executive produce.
The TV series synopsis says the show will center “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 game series has sold more than 230 million copies worldwide and kicked off in 2007, exploring the war between the rival secret orders of the Assassins and the Templars.
Each entry was mostly set in a different time period – Third Crusade, Renaissance Italy, American Revolution, the Caribbean during piracy’s Golden Age, Revolutionary France, Victorian England, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Viking invasion of Britain, Baghdad in the Islamic Golden Age and Feudal Japan.
Each of these eras was accessed from the present-day via the Animus, a machine allowing access to genetic memories of Assassins in different periods. The property was previously developed as a 2016 film starring Michael Fassbender which flopped.
Source: THR
