Having been in development for some time now, it looks like cameras will finally start rolling on the Assassin’s Creed movie later this year, with producer and star Michael Fassbender telling Coming Soon that production on the video game adaptation will kick off in September.
“You say it’s a long time but what I’ve found–it’s all new to me but starting to develop scripts and work on them, they take time,” states Fassbender. “It just takes time to get a good story together and we really want to do it right. It’s exciting. It’s going to start this year, we’ll be filming in September.”
Asked which games and time periods might serve as inspiration for the movie, Fassbender responded, “That’s always the challenge of something that’s so dense, to really find something and pare it down and basically, there are so many elements to it, so trying to translate that to an audience, you have to pick key things. So yes, that is part of it, getting through the density of it and paring down and engaging a simple story.”
Assassin’s Creed will reunite Fassbender with his Macbeth director Justin Kurzel and co-star Marion Cotillard, and is set for release on December 21st 2016 in the U.S. and December 30th 2016 in the U.K.
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Originally published May 2, 2015. Updated April 12, 2018.
