Netflix’s Live-Action Assassin’s Creed Series Is Finally Getting Made
Roberto Patino and David Wiener are set to bring the iconic video game franchise to life.
(Photo by Assassin's Creed Franchise, Photo by Ubisoft)
After years of development, Netflix’s live-action Assassin’s Creed series is finally moving forward. The long-anticipated adaptation of Ubisoft’s blockbuster video game franchise now has Roberto Patino (DMZ, Zero Day, Westworld) and David Wiener (Homecoming, Brave New World, Fear the Walking Dead) on board as creators, showrunners, and executive producers.
“We’ve been fans of Assassin’s Creed since its release in 2007,” said Wiener and Patino. “Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour and the thrills is a baseline for the most essential kind of human story—about people searching for purpose, struggling with questions of identity and destiny and faith. It is about power and violence and sex and greed and vengeance. But more than anything, this is a show about the value of human connection, across cultures, across time. And it’s about what we stand to lose as a species, when those connections break. We’ve got an amazing team behind us with the folks at Ubisoft and our champions at Netflix, and we’re committed to creating something undeniable for fans all over the planet.”
With over 230 million copies sold, Assassin’s Creed has been one of gaming’s most successful franchises since its launch in 2007. The most recent game, Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, launched in 2025. This will be the first live-action series under Netflix and Ubisoft’s partnership, which has already produced several animated projects, such as Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix and the upcoming Splinter Cell: Deathwatch. Other adaptations of the fan-favorite video game include 2016’s Assassin’s Creed, starring Michael Fassbender.
The upcoming live-action series will explore the iconic battle between the Assassins and the Templars, following characters through major historical events as they fight over the fate of humanity in order to track down powerful artifacts known as the Pieces of Eden. Netflix’s Peter Friedlander praised the show as “an epic adventure that both honors the legacy of the Assassin’s Creed franchise and invites longtime fans and newcomers alike to experience the thrill of the Brotherhood as never before.” Ubisoft Film & Television’s Margaret Boykin and Austin Dill have been added as executive producers alongside Gerard Guillemot and Matt O’Toole.
The cast and release date are currently unknown, but by the looks of it, the upcoming Assassin’s Creed series is slated to be one of the biggest video game TV adaptations we’ve ever seen.
