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Michael Fassbender wants to honour Assassin's Creed

Michael Fassbender is busy promoting his dramedy Frank, which has been out in Europe for several months, but is set to be released in the U.S. next week. We were able to sit down with the actor recently to discuss his role as an eccentric musician in the film. During the course of our conversation, we touched on the progress he's making with the oft-discussed Assassin's Creed movie, which he will both produce and star in.

-Foxtrot3563d ago (Edited 3563d ago )

Mmmm Hmmm

How many people who do video game adaptations say something like this

Hell you have Paul W.S Anderson walking around arrogantly thinking he's broken the video game to film curse and has done justice to the fans.

I mean he's talking about honouring it yet he's going to add original story points meaning adding stuff into the story that's not in the game...this is also known as straying away from the source material.

ironfist923563d ago

Ubisoft has confirmed it wont be a direct adaptation, but an entirely new chapter set within the same universe.

That way you dont have to worry about drawing too much from the game and pissing off the fans due to minute discrepancies, but also making it accessible for non-fans and regular film goers.

-Foxtrot3563d ago

Yeah and like I said straying from the source material and trying to make a new story when you already have a story right in front of you is ALWAYS the downfall of video game films.

They try to change things and it never works.

So yeah your going to tick off fans that way anyway...like it always does.

gamerfan09093563d ago

You're comparing someone with Fassbenders talent to Paul WS Anderson? Fassbedner is a pretty big deal at the moment so if he's picking this to be his next film, I'm sure the script is great.

-Foxtrot3563d ago (Edited 3563d ago )

It doesn't mean shit who you are. If you don't respect the source material the film will be bad.

Seriously i cant believe you or most just think because Fassbender is involved it's automatically going to be good.

Hell David O Russell when he was doing the Uncharted film wanted to tear it apart and he has made some great films.

iamnsuperman3563d ago

Well how else is an Assassin's Creed movie going to work? The foundation isn't there to make a good film (maybe a TV series but not film). As long as the Assassin's Creed's universe rules are followed it should have no problem. Fassbender is a talented actor and famous enough to draw in the crowds. They just needed to change the story since at the moment the quality is more b-movie that big blockbuster

-Foxtrot3563d ago

Of course the foundation is there

Assassin gets demoted after something goes wrong

Takes on a mission to get his stats back by his mentor

Realises there's a much bigger plot behind a simple mision

Investigates

Learns more by killing Templars. Reduce the amount you kill in the game since there was only losds to stretch story out

Find out Mentor is behind it

Kill him

End.

Honestly it can be done. It's all about condensing it down and finding out what is there for gameplay purposes not story.

You don't need to add anything

nope1113563d ago

Wait.... They're doing a Assassin's Creed movie and Fassbender is in it?

That's....... Pretty damn awesome. I hope it doesn't suck.

scark923563d ago

I think it would not be as hard to create an Assassins Creed movie, I just hope they make it distinctive rather than mediocre or predictable.

DarkOcelet3563d ago (Edited 3563d ago )

Fassbender is awesome and most of his roles lately were amazing so i have faith that this movie could be great .

ArnoDorian3563d ago

he better, otherwise im haunting him :)

nidhogg3563d ago

As long as it's Fassbender, I am certain the acting will be good. Now, about the screenplay ... let's just hope for the best.

ironfist923563d ago

Ubisoft has direct oversight and control over the film, unlike in the past where you simply hand over the license to someone random director who doesnt know what the game is about.

I have high hopes for this one, especially with Fassbender.

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Skuletor60d ago

Do the NPCs still randomly levitate every now and then? Even years later I noticed they hadn't patched that out

andy8559d ago (Edited 59d ago )

Honestly I loved the PS4 ACs. I'd love next gen ports of Black Flag, Unity and Syndicate

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isarai213d ago

Nope, I hated 3, connar was bland, literally the most flat character in the entire game. Not to mention to myriad of bugs, camera issues, and that annoying thing where he automatically ditches his weapon you payed for for the sake of a cool finishing move forcing you to trek back to your base after almost every encounter just to re-equip your own weapon. It just didn't work as fluidly as the others like 2 and 4

Samonuske213d ago

The series peaked at AC3 for me. It’s been my favourite in the series. Connor will always be one of my favourite video game protagonists.

Becuzisaid213d ago

No. Game was BORING. Connor was really dull. Environments, while impressive, because of the geographic location and time period were not really exciting to be in. I would love some kind of game set in there colonial American time period, but a game like AC that back then centered around parkour and vertical traversal really didn't fit those environments.

-Foxtrot213d ago

Nope

There was a lot of issues but mine is how they handled the war

They told us Connor was not going to get involved, that the war was more of a background setting for the real story and it wasn’t going to be one sided

They lied, even the cinematic E3 trailer showed Connor emerge from the Colonist side and slaughter the red coats to get to his target, inspiring the Colonists to fight back

I just thought it would have made more sense lore wise that the red coats were mostly compiled of Assassins fighting the Colonist templars who wanted to take the new world for themselves.

Since the Red coats lost the war, it would then explain how the Templars started to gain the upper hand and how on the future the assassins were mostly killed off and the Templar’s had pretty much taken over everything.

Instead it just felt like they didn’t want to p*** off the American audience

Even Haytham was cool, he should have been an Assassin through and through and should have been the main lead.

toxic-inferno213d ago

The game even seems to lack the humour of the other games. It almost seems as though the idea of even slightly making fun of American history wouldn't be acceptable.

-Foxtrot213d ago

Exactly

It just felt super safe

“Better not make the colonists look super bad incase people boycott our game”

jeromeface212d ago

someone missed the whole point

-Foxtrot212d ago

There was literally no point

What I've just said above would at least make sense lore wise and why the Assassins start to loose their war, die off and how the Templars are in control in the future of almost everything....what they did was just, pointless

CrimsonWing69213d ago

I’m one one of those weird people that liked Ass Creed 3, but to be fair I never got around to finishing it.

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