Tuesday, April 29, 2014
It looks like the Assassin’s Creed movie has found a director.
Variety reports that the deadly video game adaptation will be helmed by Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel. His first movie was the 2011 crime thriller The Snowtown Murders, and he’s currently working on a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s MacBeth, which stars Assassin’s Creed lead Michael Fassbender. The pair apparently have a good working relationship, because Fassbender reportedly campaigned for Kurzel to get the job.
Earlier this year, Safe House director Daniel Espinosa was rumoured to be in talks to helm Assassin’s Creed, but it seems he didn’t get the contract.
There’s no word yet on the plot of the film. It could borrow its story from one or several of the games, or tell an original story with a different Assassin. Fassbender doesn’t really look like any of the historical heroes from the existing games, but he could pass for the present day character Desmond Miles.
The next game, Assassin’s Creed Unity, will launch this holiday season.
