Back in 2012, Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Days of Future Past) was attached to the proposed film adaptation of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed video game, starring (presumably) as lead character Desmond Miles. Since then, progress has halted due to both Fassbender’s ridiculously busy parade of films that have both been shot and released in the interim (12 Years a Slave, The Counselor, Frank, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Slow West, Macbeth, and a film with Terrence Malick), but also the studio’s inability to find a director for the film.
However, a director has finally been found as yesterday, New Regency announced Fassbender’s Macbeth director, Justin Kurzel, signed on to reunite with the actor for the anticipated film adaptation. Kurzel’s a relative newcomer to film with only one feature-length film, Snowtown, under his belt. However, the 2013 debut was met with critical acclaim, receiving 10 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards nominations, winning six, including Best Direction for Kurzel.
For those unfamiliar with the Assassin’s Creed franchise, it takes place in an alternate near future where a secret organization has invented a device, Animus, that allows certain people to live out their ancestors’ memories in order to find long-forgotten relics. Of course, it all spins into a large government conspiracy, shedding light on a generations-long rivalry between two warring factions. Fassbender will star as the contemporary Desmond Miles, a bartender unknowingly descended from a long line of Assassins, who lives out his ancestors’ lives during the Third Crusade in 1191, the Re
[via /Film]