Assassins Creed Movie in the Works

Well it would appear that Assassin's Creed is finally going to be made into a movie! The most popular series of video games is now coming to the big screen. Actor Michael Fassbender (currently seen in Ridley Scott's recent Prometheus movie) is set to star in and co-produce the Assassin's Creed movie.

According to Variety:

"Plot revolves around a man who learns his ancestors were trained assassins after he is kidnapped by a secret org with ties to the Knights Templar, and sent back in time to retrieve historical artifacts."

We think that the ''man'' in question might be Desmond Miles, the 21st-century character through which players are reliving the adventures of Miles' genetic ancestors, the various assassins of the games: Altair (during the Crusades), Ezzio Auditore (the Renaissance) and, later, in Assassin's Creed III, coming out this fall, Connor Kenway (the American Revolution).

"Michael Fassbender was our first choice" to play the franchise's iconic hooded hero, said Jean-Julien Baronnet, CEO of Paris-based Ubisoft Motion Pictures. "Michael (Fassbender) is an extremely smart, talented, versatile and committed actor."

Last Fall, Ubisoft had been in talks with Sony to develop a series of films based on the successful Assassin's Creed games, but the companies put the project on hold. Now it appears that Ubisoft is planning to stick to its initial plan and develop the film independently, much as Marvel did with its comic-book properties Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and the Avengers films, so that it can maintain creative control over the product. Quite interesting!