After years of delays, Netflix’s live-action Assassin’s Creed series is officially moving forward, bringing the iconic game franchise to the small screen.
Five years after initial reports, Netflix has officially confirmed that a live-action Assassin’s Creed series is in development. Netflix’s deal with Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft has been in place since 2020, with the project cycling through multiple creative teams over the years. But Roberto Patino and David Wiener, who was also one of the writers for the Halo show, are officially set as the series’s showrunners, creators, and executive producers.
“We’ve been fans of ‘Assassin’s Creed’ since its release in 2007,” Wiener and Patino said, as reported by Variety. “Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin’s Creed opens 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.
