The Assassin’s Creed video game movie adaptation is directed by Justin Kurzel and reunites the filmmaker with several of his collaborators on his acclaimed Macbeth (2015) adaptation; including, co-writer Michael Lesslie, stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, and cinematographer Adam Arkpaw. Going from adapting a play by William Shakespeare to bringing a highly-popular Ubisoft gaming IP is certainly an unusual move on Kurzel’s part, but also one that suggests that in his hands, Assassin’s Creed could be something special – and not just by the (admittedly, low) standards of video game-inspired cinema, either.
Assassin’s Creed takes place in the same continuity as the original video games and revolves around one Callum Lynch (Fassbender), a Death Row inmate who heads into his execution only to wake up and find himself the “guest” (read: prisoner) of Abstergo Industries: a multi-conglomerate corporation and the front for the centuries-old Templar order. As Lynch learns more ...
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