Assassins Creed movie

[Alucard]

Could care less about the games, and the story is pretty dodgy to begin with. They'll have to change it a bit so it doesnt look like its repeating itself till the end. But Fassbender in anything is awesome.

Variety reports that the planned movie adaptation of Ubisoft's popular video game Assassin's Creed is moving forward with Michael Fassbender attached to star in and co-produce the movie.

Originally, the Assassin's Creed movie was going to be produced in conjunction with Sony Pictures but those negotiations were put on hold and Ubisoft have decided to finance and produce the film independently through their recently-launched Ubisoft Motion Pictures (UMP) division with former EuropaCorp CEO Jean-Julien Baronnet running the show.

The original game involves a bartender named Desmond Miles, captured by a secret organization with ties to the Knight Templar who repeatedly send Miles back in time into the body of his assassin ancestors to retrieve valuable historical artifacts, the first time going back to the Crusades. Presumably, Fassbender would be playing Miles, even though that's not stated in the story.

Ubisoft Motion Pictures CEO Jean-Julien Baronnet, said about the actor:

"Michael Fassbender was our first choice. Michael (Fassbender) is an extremely smart, talented, versatile and committed actor."

The various "Assassin's Creed" games have sold over 30 million units since its debut in 2007 with "Assassin's Creed III" scheduled for October 30. Ubisoft have big plans to turn the games into a movie franchise, but they first have to find a writer and director, which they'll probably do before going out to studios, including Sony.

"We're open to re-discuss with the key studios once the production package is finalized," Baronnet told Variety. "Whatever the financial model, UMP will limit its risk investment." According to the story, they also will save on production costs by using some of the in-house game studios to handle visual effects for the movies.

The Variety story also mentions that the company wants to adapt "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell" and "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon" into films and are developing an animated television series based on the "Raving Rabbids" for Nickelodeon.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=92310

[Badrats Studio]

IDK Splinter Cell is more fit for theater / motion picture imo...

[Northeastmonk]

I'd think it would tank in the box office because "movies" today suck. And video game movies have bombed compared to comic book movies.

The games have a lot of potential, but after a while they begin to drag a bit.

[Einhander]

Fassbender gives it a bit of credibility I wasn't expecting.

Hopefully it'll be better than Prometheus.