Michael Fassbender will star and co-produce a movie adaptation of Assassin’s Creed. The actor has starred in X-Men: First Class, Shame, Haywire, Prometheus and will next be seen in The Counselor and Twelve Years a Slave.
“Michael Fassbender was our first choice [to play the franchise’s iconic hooded hero],” said Jean-Julien Baronnet, CEO of Paris-based Ubisoft Motion Pictures. “Michael (Fassbender) is an extremely smart, talented, versatile and committed actor.”
The plan for the movie is likely to involve packaging the project with a writer and director through Ubisoft Motion Pictures before resuming talks with a studio (probably Sony Pictures) for distribution. “We’re open to re-discuss with the key studios once the production package is finalized,” said Baronnet.
Source: Variety.com
