Video game movies may have turned a corner this year with the surprisingly good, and successful, Sonic the Hedgehog. But for the most part, attempts to turn them into blockbuster gold have been a fail. Just look at Assassin’s Creed; the hit Ubisoft action-adventure game was turned into a star-studded affair led by Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, but didn’t do much at the box office. Well, now it’s Netflix’s turn to give it a shot, but as a series.
Netflix and Ubisoft have struck a deal to bring Assassin’s Creed to streaming as a live-action series, while other content will be developed, as well. If you’re expecting anybody from the movie to be involved, well, don’t. This will be a totally new thing, using the game franchise’s wealth of stories charting millennia-old battle between the Assassins and the Templars.
If you’ve played the Assassin’s Creed games then you know each one is like a movie unto itself. They feature rich environments, dynamic action, and stories deeply-rooted in historical fiction. There have been eleven core games with a twelfth on the way, not including various spinoffs, comics, novels, and short films.
This makes all the sense in the world for Netflix, who have already found success turning another video game, The Witcher, into a fan-favorite series.
