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If you’ve played Assassin’s Creed… any of them… you’ll be excited to know that there is a movie for it coming out in December! And this one isn’t straight-up copy pasting the plot from one of the games, but rather doing their own take on Assassin’s Creed.
Last week we got the 411 on the Assassin’s Creed movie, and it’s pretty much confirmed that Michael K Williams’ character Moussa is the movie’s first link to an in-game Assassin. While Moussa meets Michael Fassbender’s modern day character Callum Lynch in the 21st century, his genetic ancestor is an ex-Assassin called Baptiste.
If you played the New Orleans set Assassin’s Creed Liberation on the PS Vita, you’ll know of him as the voodoo leader of a cult of slaves who sided with the Templars and was duly executed by Aveline de Grandpre.
And if you’ve NEVER heard of this game series, here’s a plot summary for the movie:
Fassbender seems to be some sort of criminal who is executed (supposedly), then recruited by Abstergo for the Animus project. In the movie, the Animus looks to be some kind of large, freerunning device in the open air that Fassbender is strapped into, rather than him simply lying on a chair Matrix-style like in the games. The Spanish Inquisition is also somewhere the games have not visited, so the “past” storyline will not echo the games either.
Either way, I’m really excited that they’re making a movie of a video game series with one of the coolest plots ever – minus the annoying NPCs 🙂
This is the trailer for the movie “Assassin’s Creed” starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, which hits theaters December 21st. Enjoy!
– BrigetteRose@1063RL
Sources: Jimmy Kimmel Live, GamesRadar , Forbes