Netflix‘s upcoming series reboot of the Ubisoft sci-fi adventure video game franchise, “Assassin’s Creed,” has landed a director as Johan Renck is set to reunite with the streaming series after helming the 2024 Adam Sandler-led sci-fi flick “Spaceman.”
That series update hails from Variety, which revealed the director’s involvement in the video game adaptation. Renck famously won an Emmy award for his directing on the HBO miniseries “Chernobyl,” with other TV credits including “Bloodline,” “Vikings,” “The Walking Dead,” and “Breaking Bad.”
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The newly announced director will work alongside showrunners Roberto Patino (“DMZ,” “Westworld,” “Sons of Anarchy”) and David Wiener (“Halo,” “Homecoming,” “The Killing”), who are spearheading the first live-action entry in Netflix’s partnership with video game publisher/studio Ubisoft, as they’re already working together on the “Splinter Cell” animated series as well with “Spinter Cell: Deathwatch” that debuted back in October.
A previous synopsis for the genre-bending series via Netflix:
“Assassin’s Creed” will be a high-octane thriller centered on the secret war between two shadowy factions, one set on determining mankind’s future through control and manipulation, the other fighting to preserve free will. The series will follow its characters across pivotal historical events as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny.
This comes after we learned about a batch of casting additions to the series not too long ago, with those names for the main cast being Toby Wallace (“Euphoria”), Lola Petticrew (“Say Nothing”), Zachary Hart (“Slow Horses”), and Laura Marcus (“Death by Lightning”).
An interesting aspect of the “Assassin’s Creed” video games has been their various settings, including Renaissance Italy, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the era of pirates in the Caribbean, the Viking age, and the most recent game tackled feudal Japan with players being able to take control of the historical black samurai, Yasuke (Chadwick Boseman once attached to play him in a feature film before his untimely passing). So, in theory, if Netflix wanted to do multiple seasons (unclear which era they’ll be exploring in season one), there is a perfect excuse to switch up the timelines explored via the in-game advanced technology.
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