Assassin's Creed confirmed for live-action Netflix adaptation

Now, following various teams taking over the project, the series has officially been given the go-ahead and is set to enter production, according to Variety.

The series will be headed up by Roberto Patino and David Wiener as creators, showrunners and executive producers.

In a statement, Patino and Wiener stated that, "We've been fans of Assassin's Creed since its release in 2007."

They added: "Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin's Creed opens up to us. Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour and the thrills is a baseline for the most essential kind of human story – about people searching for purpose, struggling with questions of identity and destiny and faith.

"It is about power and violence and sex and greed and vengeance. But more than anything, this is a show about the value of human connection, across cultures, across time. And it's about what we stand to lose as a species, when those connections break.

"We've got an amazing team behind us with the folks at Ubisoft and our champions at Netflix, and we're committed to creating something undeniable for fans all over the planet."

The duo will be joined on the project by Matt O'Toole, as well as Ubisoft Film & Television's Gerard Guillemot, Margaret Boykin and Austin Dill, all of whom will serve as executive producers.

Since debuting in 2007, Assassin's Creed has gone on to become one of the most critically and commercially successful series in gaming, with the latest release, Assassin's Creed Shadows, launching earlier this year.

Although a film adaptation starring Michael Fassbender was released in 2016, Netflix will be hoping for a rather more successful outing this time around, with the film currently sitting on an 18 per cent critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Patino has previously been credited on the likes of Westworld, DMZ and Sons of Anarchy, while Wiener already has some video game pedigree to his name as the showrunner of season 2 of Halo.

This series marks the first live-action series produced as part of the ongoing Netflix-Ubisoft partnership, following the animated Rabbids Invasion, Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, and the upcoming Splinter Cell: Deathwatch.

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