The long rumored and even longer delayed film adaptation of Assassin’s Creed now has a release date.
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The film is set to appear in theaters on December 21, 2016 and will hopefully require no patching. Very few details are known about the movie, save the director, Justin Kurzel and star, the great Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class, Inglorious Basterds and Centurion). At the very least, we know that its star can handle whatever action they put him into.
Yet beyond those two - now three facts - nothing else is known about the project. Is it a remake? Does it fit into the (severely convoluted) storyline? Will Fassbender play Ezio, Altair, someone else? The script is currently assigned to Bill Collage, Adam Cooper and Michael Lesslie and the imdb description only gives us the basic concept of the Animus.
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After all, Ubisoft is not known for really sticking the landing on their release dates. However, given the substantial delay in the project, which was originally scheduled for this August, perhaps they’ve at least learned not to rush their projects.
Ubisoft’s last foray into film resulted in the disastrous Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. While it was never officially confirmed, I cannot help but feel that that film was one of the reasons the series never continued past its fourth iteration. In fact, the Assassin’s Creed series was originally a spin-off of the newly rebooted Prince of Persia trilogy.
Director Justin Kurzel’s previous effort was a 2011 effort called The Snowtown Murders, based on some of the most notorious serial killings in Australia. The film is a more melancholic, deeply disturbing look into human nature, lacking the panache and swashbuckling spirit of Assassin’s Creed. However, the characters in both films are very, very good at killing, so there’s at least that common thread.
We’ll find out come Christmas next year.