The big selling point of the Assassin’s Creed series has been its mixture of past and near-future-set story – the core gameplay typically takes place in a sumptuous period city (or location with ample opportunity for free-running), but the framing device involves corporate ancient guilds and doomsday plots, with your character reliving the past events through ancestral DNA.
This basic balance is what Justin Kurzel’s movie adaptation, due in just a couple of weeks, is going for, although it looks like there’ll be more to the modern pieces than the simple exposition dump they were in the early games. Approximately two thirds of the film will be set in the near-future, and stars Jeremey Irons and Marion Cotillard’s characters exist in the future exclusively (as CEO of nefarious company Abstergo Industries and overseer of DNA time travel machine the Animus, respectively).
A new clip from the film, titled “Cafeteria”, has come online, showing a ...
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