Ubisoft’s Murderer’s Creed is taking one other stab at Hollywood.

Almost 5 years within the making, Netflix has introduced it has greenlit a live-action adaptation of Ubisoft’s hit online game franchise Murderer’s Creed, as a part of the streaming big’s 2020 settlement with Ubisoft.

The streaming big additionally shared that Emmy nominees Roberto Patino (DMZ, Westworld, Sons of Anarchy) and David Wiener (Halo, Homecoming, The Killing) will function creators, showrunners, and govt producers.

Wiener and Patino gave some perception into what followers might count on from the sequence in a joint assertion.

Murderer’s Creed 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, whereas the opposite fights to protect free will,” the forthcoming present’s logline reads. The sequence follows its characters throughout pivotal historic occasions as they battle to form humanity’s future.

We’ve been followers of Murderer’s Creed since its launch in 2007. Each day we work on this present, we come away excited and humbled by the probabilities that Murderer’s Creed opens to us. Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour, and the thrills is a baseline for essentially the most important form of human story — about individuals looking for objective, combating questions of id and future, and religion. It’s about energy and violence and intercourse and greed and vengeance.

However greater than something, it is a present concerning the worth of human connection, throughout cultures, throughout time. And it’s about what we stand to lose as a species when these connections break. We’ve acquired a tremendous crew behind us with the parents at Ubisoft and our champions at Netflix, and we’re dedicated to creating one thing simple for followers everywhere in the planet.

This Is Not The First Time Murderer’s Creed Took A Leap of Religion Into Hollywood

In 2016, for many who could have forgotten, there was the Murderer’s Creed movie directed by Justin Kurzel and starring Michael Fassbender, Michael Okay. Williams, Jeremy Irons, and extra.

Sadly, we have been nonetheless in a time when movie diversifications of video video games have been subpar, so this redo of Murderer’s Creed may be very a lot welcomed.

Moreover, Netflix has a robust monitor document with its online game diversifications, because of sequence like Castlevania, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and the upcoming Splinter Cell: Deathwatch. Arcane, primarily based on Riot Video games’ League of Legends gaming franchise.

So, take into account us optimistic about this one.