After years of dialogue of collaboration between Ubisoft and Netflix, in the present day we received official affirmation {that a} live-action Murderer’s Creed collection has been greelit at Netflix. Robert Patino (Westworld, DMZ) and David Wiener (Halo, Worry The Strolling Lifeless) will lead the challenge as co-creators, showrunners, and govt producers. Gerard Guillemot, Margaret Boykin, Austin Dill, and Matt O’Toole will even function govt producers.
If this information sounds acquainted, you are not imagining issues. In 2020, Netflix announced the show, led on the time by govt producers Jason Altman and Danielle Kreinik. Then, in June 2021, we learned the project would be led by showrunner Jeb Stuart, however by January of the subsequent 12 months, Stuart had left the project, in response to Collider.
The present was not canceled, nevertheless, and this new duo of showrunners is seemingly its flood kind. Now that the present has been greenlit, it might probably formally transfer from growth into manufacturing and is extra more likely to really come out.
The Murderer’s Creed collection is understood for its detailed historic settings, sometimes specializing in main cities at pivotal moments in historical past. We do not know precisely when or the place this live-action collection will probably be set, however in response to an outline supplied on Ubisoft’s information web page, it would happen at a number of time durations.
The outline reads, “The Murderer’s Creed live-action collection is a high-octane thriller centered on the key struggle between two shadowy factions: one set on figuring out mankind’s future via management and manipulation, the opposite preventing to protect free will. The collection follows characters throughout pivotal historic occasions as they battle to form humanity’s future.”
Later within the announcement, a joint assertion from showrunners Patino and Wiener communicates their emotions on the video games as they start growing the present. “Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour and the thrills is a baseline for probably the most important type of human story – about folks looking for function, combating questions of id and future and religion,” they write. “It’s about energy and violence and intercourse and greed and vengeance. However greater than something, this can be a present concerning the worth of human connection, throughout cultures, throughout time. And it is about what we stand to lose as a species, when these connections break.”
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