Ubisoft Motion Pictures has hired Michael Fassbender (of X-Men: First Class and Prometheus fame, among others) to star and co-produce an upcoming Assassin’s Creed movie. To keep greater creative control over the project, Ubisoft will assemble a staff itself — writers, actors, producers, designers, etc. — and ship it off to a major distributor. It’s not clear what character Fassbender would play — Altair? Ezio? someone else? — but Ubisoft is excited, with CEO Jean-Julien Baronnet calling Fassbender “our first choice.”
Benton Sartore has been reading comic books off and on since his age was in single digits, and playing RPGs since college. He enjoys a variety of comic books, TV shows, and movies, and he's a little too proud of his DVD collection. And for some stupid reason, he can't let go of Star Wars, no matter how much dumb stuff the franchise does.
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