Assassin's Creed | 12/21/2016 | Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard | Final Trailer on Page 71

[Neo]

It is a video game adaption. They never worked out well.

Look at the current ones? Studios are making sure these are right. I will take ANY bet on a current video game movie under an older one.

[4815162342]

It is a video game adaption. They never worked out well.

 

Honestly the way they'll market this, most people won't even know it's based on a video game.

[Neo]

Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed screenwriter revealed

[kayumanggi]

Fassbender is the main reason I want to see this. He is a badass actor. Very versatile.

[Neo]

Assassin’s Creed movie update from Michael Fassbender

[Neo]

That’s definitely happening. We’re just developing the script at the moment. I’d heard of it but had never played the game. I don’t have a video game player … that’s not what they’re called. [Laughs] I met up with the guys from Ubisoft and they told me the story behind it, and I thought it was very interesting—the idea of reliving memories.

 

http://www.videogamefilms.com/michael-fassbender-on-what-drew-him-to-assassins-creed/

[tonytr87]

People keep saying video game adaptations never do well and therefore never will, which is reductive. That's only the case because in the past they've either been complete shit, had horrendous marketing, or they came long after the game had already become irrelevant. The original Mortal Kombat is the outlier with a 70mil gross in 1995, decent quality compared to other adaptations, and it was released when the games were still all the buzz. 

 

The Resident Evil franchise has been mostly successful, and would probably be even more successful if they focused more on horror instead of shitty outdated wire-fu/bullet-time action sequences or if the games were still relevant. Not to mention if they were any good.

 

The majority of video game adaptations have flopped or failed to break out not because audiences have something against them, it's because the movies sucked. 

Edited October 16, 2013 by tonytr87

[Cairo]

People keep saying video game adaptations never do well and therefore never will, which is reductive. That's only the case because in the past they've either been complete shit, had horrendous marketing, or they came long after the game had already become irrelevant. The original Mortal Kombat is the outlier with a 70mil gross in 1995, decent quality compared to other adaptations, and it was released when the games were still all the buzz. 

 

The Resident Evil franchise has been mostly successful, and would probably be even more successful if they focused more on horror instead of shitty outdated wire-fu/bullet-time action sequences or if the games were still relevant. Not to mention if they were any good.

 

The majority of video game adaptations have flopped or failed to break out not because audiences have something against them, it's because the movies sucked. 

Kinda reminds me of female led superhero movies. Just before studios released two cheap and crappy ones (Elektra and Catwoman), it doesn't mean future ones would flop as well. If Katniss and  Bella Swan can kick male superheros' ass at the bo, so can Wonderwoman. 

[The Stingray]

If you didn't already love Fassbender, you're about to now.

 

"I'd heard of the game but had never played it. I don't have a video game player... I met up with the guys from Ubisoft and they told me the story behind it, and I thought it was very interesting - the idea of reliving memories."

 

 

[Neo]

If you didn't already love Fassbender, you're about to now.

 

"I'd heard of the game but had never played it. I don't have a video game player... I met up with the guys from Ubisoft and they told me the story behind it, and I thought it was very interesting - the idea of reliving memories."

 

 

Posted right above.

[The Stingray]

Posted right above.

lol. Sorry.

[John Marston]

the fact that Fassbender agreed to do the movie just from the pitch interesting

[SpiderByte]

There's still the big question that it seems NOBODY IN THE PRESS HAS ASKED HIM FOR SOME REASON as to who the hell he's actually playing.

[John Marston]

he is obviously playing the assassin. Don't think he is playing Desmond. Desmond probably only appears sporadically throughout 

Edited October 28, 2013 by John Marston

[SpiderByte]

he is obviously playing the assassin. Don't think he is playing Desmond. Desmond probably only appears sporadically throughout

That's the thing. If he's an Ancestor, which one? Ezio, Altair, one of the Kenways?

[4815162342]

I assume it's based on the first game, so Altair.

[Caboose]

The smart thing to do would be to just take the overall concept and otherwise ignore the horrible storyline of the games.

[SpiderByte]

I started the series with AC2 on a friends recommendation, but I don't think Altair is white.

[4815162342]

I started the series with AC2 on a friends recommendation, but I don't think Altair is white.

 

Altair is Syrian. Syrians generally look classic Middle Eastern but they can have lighter shades of skin as well.

[SpiderByte]

Well there's 'lighter' and then there's Michael Fassbender.