Fassbender to star in Assassin's Creed movie
Prometheus and X-Men: First Class star Michael Fassbender has been chose by Ubisoft to play the lead in an upcoming movie adaptation of the Assassin's Creed franchise. He will also co-produce the film with Conor McCaughan.
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Prometheus and X-Men: First Class star Michael Fassbender has been chose by Ubisoft to play the lead in an upcoming movie adaptation of the Assassin's Creed franchise. He will also co-produce the film with Conor McCaughan.-
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If I had to pick a game franchise to move to movies, this would be high on the list. Most game-movies or attempts miss the point of what made a certain game popular - the player experience (max payne, resident evil etc), adapt something with no plot or a faceless protagonist (halo etc), change shit randomly (hitman etc), or change shit in some sort of misguided euhemeristic haze (fucking mario bros.).
AC is about dudes in hoods stabbing people (IN HISTORY!), which certainly doesn't rely on the player experience, and has protagonists with faces and personalities, an overarching plotline, and also an established space for new stories to inhabit.
It may be utter shit. But it doesn't need to be. -
They will as soon as movie makers start treating games like they do comic books now.
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It's not that they're inherently unable to be transferred. It's that the people they keep putting in charge keep fucking it up royally. I still can't believe they screwed up Max Payne. They could have taken the story almost verbatim from the game and made it into a film and it would have been great. And look how they fucked it up.
Still, I'm hopeful that someday someone will get it right.
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What are the odds of Hollywood introducing a stupid plot element completely unrelated to the games? Aliens? Genetic manipulation? A superdrug? Come on people, this movie needs to POP!
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Look at what they did with the Max Payne movie
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To be fair, Assassin's Creed already has a stupid plot element. Nobody really gives a shit because it makes up like 2% of the story, but it is fucking stupid. End of the world in 2012 (somehow again), ancient astronauts, Apple of Eden shit.... come on. But hey! You get to go back in time through some guy's memories and run along roof tops parkour style and randomly assassinate some motherfuckers as a total fucking badass with blades hidden on his wrists. That's cool.
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I love that kind of stuff! It's total BS, but it's a lot of fun. Have you read Mutineers Moon?
http://www.baenebooks.com/p-291-mutineers-moon.aspx
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I don't think they're ancient astronauts. They're an ancient creator race from Earth.
I actually love the backstory stuff. At first they were just throwing conspiracy theories at the wall, but now it's a much more coherent world. It's only hints, but I think they've even set up the framework for how the animus/genetic memory stuff could possibly work, what with the theseus ship problem and stuff. (And the fact that women create all of their eggs in puberty, and the new vita game has a post-pubescent female protagonist)
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In that case the movie should stop playing half way through because the internet connection was spotty
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does this start to get meta if you do a digital rental
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Michael Fassbender is gonna fight the pope!!,
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