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‘Assassin’s Creed’: Toby Wallace To Star In Netflix Live-Action Series Based On Video Game

Toby Wallace is the first series regular cast in Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed live-action series, based on the video games. He will play the co-lead

deadline.com

The series stems from a deal Netflix signed with Ubisoft in 2020. It is expected to start production in 2026 in Italy, which I hear serves as a setting of the series, with the exact time period unclear.

Roberto Patino and David Wiener serve as showrunners. They executive produce with Gerard Guillemot, Margaret Boykin, Austin Dill, Genevieve Jones for Ubisoft Film & Television, and Matt O'Toole.

With more than 230 million units sold, the Assassin's Creed franchise is one of the best-selling series in video game history.

This marks Wallace's return to Netflix where he previously starred on the 2019 mystery YA drama series The Society. He recently wrapped shooting HBO's Euphoria as a new Season 3 series regular.

Wallace's recent feature credits include Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders alongside Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer, and Austin Butler, Ron Howard's Eden alongside Jude Law and Sydney Sweeney, Charles Williams' Inside with Guy Pearce, as well as in Jusin Lin's Last Days. .

On TV, Wallace also starred in Danny Boyle's FX on Hulu limited series Pistol, in which he portrayed Sex Pistols' guitarist Steve Jones. Aussie Wallace, winner of the 2020 AACTA Best Lead Actor award and the 2019 Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor at the Venice Film Festival for Babyteeth, is repped by CAA, 3 Arts, CP Artist Management, and Sloane Offer.

 

[Oberstein]

The writing in this franchise would be perfect for a Netflix adaptation.

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

It can't possibly be worse than the film, so there's that at least.

 

[MMaRsu]

It can't possibly be worse than the film

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

The film is worse than Uwe Boll on a bad day. You'd have to try really hard to out do it in the unwatchable pile of shite stakes.

 

[MMaRsu]

The film is worse than Uwe Boll on a bad day. You'd have to try really hard to out do it in the unwatchable pile of shite stakes.

I havent seen it but I believe you instantly

 

[IAmNotFromDelaware]

I wonder in which episode of season 1 will Netflix make the protagonist gay, bi, trans or autigender.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Set To Explore Ancient Rome

Netflix’s Assassin's Creed series is set to explore Ancient Rome, a period in the franchise that has been untouched.

www.nexuspointnews.com

Sources tell Nexus Point News that the series is set to explore Ancient Rome, a period in the franchise that has been untouched. Additionally, the series will feature figures like Emperor Nero and Seneca the Younger, who served as Nero's tutor. This would potentially date the series as being set somewhere between 54-68 AD, if Nero is to be emperor.

 

[semiconscious]

so disappointed that they didn't cast a japanese actor...

https://www.gladiatorstv.com/international/japan/

 

[EverydayBeast]

Makes sense a lot of content there

 

[calico]

Unfathomable L if they make an ancient Rome show but not a game, while instead making a dumb game about a witch nobody ever asked for.

If you don't want to wait, check out HBO's Rome which was 1000x better than this has any hope of being

 

[Danny22]

I said this 10 years ago. Back in 2016 when the movie released, Ubisoft had the perfect oppurtunity to make it a streaming prestige tv show. This was when Netflix was starting out and renewing everything. And every major original was getting a huge amount of attention and spotlight. Instead they went with another 2 hour movie to chase Hollywood big bucks. Like who the hell thinks 'oh yeah, tens of hours of content' in 10-15 games, lets make a live action movie. AC could have been a long running successful show by now.

Btw, not a single pure live action movie adapted from a video game in Hollywood has ever been a critical and commercial success. Out of like a 100?

Anyways, the best they can probably hope for now is a Halo level TV show unless they do something special. Competition is way too much and streaming sites are bloated and cancelling everything.