With the news of up and coming film actor Michael Fassbender signing on as principal actor and producer for an Assassin’s Creed adaptation also comes questions as to who Fassbender might be playing in the sure-to-be-blockbuster movie. While the obvious choice would be Desmond Miles, the character at the center of the Assassin’s Creed franchise – the one who experiences his ancestor’s memories through a device known as the animus – that might not necessarily be true.
If Fassbender were to play Desmond Miles that would suggest another actor would be up for the role of the titular assassin in Assassin’s Creed, if the movie were to follow the format of the games. Sure, Fassbender could pull double duty as both ancestor and descendant, but done in the wrong way, it could be seen as a little goofy, and very off-putting.
So, that leaves Fassbender potentially playing the role of either Desmond or playing the role of an assassin, hopefully one of German or British descent. But even that isn’t a given, as a representative for Ubisoft says they aren’t yet willing to comment on the character Fassbender is playing.
Joystiq reached out to Ubisoft and was told that Fassbender will, in fact, be playing the lead role in the film, “but it’s too soon to say exactly which character that will be.” The phrasing of that response insinuates that the character Fassbender will embody is one that gamers are familiar with, but it also could simply mean a script isn’t completely ironed out.
Beyond just the three Assassin’s Creed main iterations, the series has seen several offshoots released as well, including a set of graphic novels, most of which do not feature Desmond Miles at their center. Even now, with the introduction of Assassin’s Creed: Liberation‘s new female protagonist, Ubisoft continues to grow the lore, and create even more possibilities for Fassbender’s role.
We won’t know for sure just who exactly Fassbender might be playing in Assassin’s Creed – whether it’s Desmond Miles, Altair, Connor, or a completely new character – but his attachment to the property has us more than a little excited. It’s obviously still too early to begin discussing story and character, but it’s never too early to start speculating.
Who do you think Fassbender will play in the new Assassin’s Creed film? Will it be a completely new character or one we are already familiar with?
Source: Joystiq
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I think Desmond is the best role; whether it’s one movie encompassing the series or a trilogy on each era (Altair, Ezio and Connor), the guy who transcends each time frame – and, presumably, has a large present-day story that we’re not even fully aware of yet – just makes a lot more sense to me.
Fassbender’s pretty much a foolproof grab any way you slice it, though, so I can’t wait to see what Ubisoft does.
I hope that desmond isn’t even in the movie. We don’t need a movie to tell us the story of the game, that’s what the game is for, so instead they should make a movie focused around the game, characters, ideas universe, etc, but it should have an original story and characters
It shuld b like the resident evil movies in the sense that alice wasnt even in the games but the story centered around her n had da same premise of zombies n even fan favorite characters. So assassins creed shuld b like dat in a way
That’s a great idea, but hopefully it isn’t as lame as the crappy movies that keep spewing out.
Fassbender wouldn’t do something like this, so out of his norm compared to other films he has done, unless he had complete and total faith in the project. Regardless, I hope they adapt the games ad he is both Desmond and Altair.
I think he’ll play the main villain. Just a hunch.
I agree with the villain hunch, Fassbender looks more the part for a villain. He wouldn’t look right as Desmond.
Good article, and great news. Odd that the writer of this article doesn’t seem to be a fan of the series, or else he or she would not repeatedly refer to 3 as the third game in the series. Just to clarify: much like GTA, major installments don’t always get numbers but that doesn’t diminish their status or quality as sequels. After AC2 came AC Brotherhood and the fairly recent AC Revelations. There was a portable game or two as well. Am I forgetting anything? Hope at helps.
With the new game centered on the American Revolution, I would love to see start the film franchise with the story of part 3.
Fassbender as Connor would be pretty slick to see. The initials games set in Jerusalem and Rome are pretty sweet and would be epic in scope, but, this is for an Amercian audience isn’t it?
I’m hoping for a new ancestor with a new main character. No Desmond. No Altair. No Ezio. No Connor. I’m also hoping a new time period. Maybe one that the games decided not to go with? Such as: Russia(WWII?? Maybe. Not a huge WWII fan, but it’d good to have that war come froma Russian perspective to freshen it up. If anyone can do it, AC can.), Victorian England, French Revelution. Somewhere untold. I personally would love Russia or England. Especially England. Such a good era for it. Yeah. Just saying. I also have to think though, the movies don’t need such a specific environment for it to work as the games do. Ac Games need close environment to work, but the movie may not. It still needs to have that feel, but giving the movie a separate concept in the same universe could be cool. Almost like an espionage thing going on. We’d need some classic AC stuff thrown in there though. I don’t know, just food for thought. (:
Anyone else see his similarity to Clay (Subject 16)?
He isn’t dark enough to be a Desmond. It wouldn’t be right. I hope this movie is like the movie they did with Ezio’s father, only x3 in everything.