We’ve just learned that the big-screen version of the Ubisoft video game ASASSIN’S CREED has just started production with principal photography to begin very soon with lead Michael Fassbender (who is just finishing off the Danny Boyle Steve Jobs biopic). Joining him on the massive production is French actress Marion Cotillard (LA VIE EN ROSE), who will play the female lead in a deal that will see her reprise her role in multiple films should this movie become successful. New Regency and 20th Century Fox produce.
ASSASSIN’S CREED is a series of video games produced for several platforms that revolves around Desmond Miles, a modern-day man who, ‘through the use of a machine named the “Animus”, is allowed the viewing and controlling of the protagonist’s genetic memories of his ancestors, in the case of the original game, Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad, a member of the Assassins.’ [thank you WikiPedia]
The film version has a December 21, 2016 release date set and Deadline, who broke the Cotillard casting, says photography will start in the fall of this year. We have no further details as to who Cotillard will play, but we’ll bring you more news as we get it.
Source: Deadline
