On October 27, 2020, Netflix announced an agreement with Ubisoft to develop content based on the international best-selling video game franchise Assassin’s Creed. Netflix is planning an “Assassin’s Creed” live-action, animated, and anime series.
First launched in 2007, the Assassin’s Creed series has sold more than 155 million games worldwide. The franchise is now established as one of the best-selling series in video game history. Assassin’s Creed has many rich storylines from which Netflix and Ubisoft can pull from. The first series in development is slated to be a live-action adaptation. There is a search is currently underway for a showrunner. This is all very preliminary information coming out. Ubisoft Film & Television’s Jason Altman and Danielle Kreinik will serve as Executive Producers.
Netflix is the world’s leading streaming entertainment service and has already seen great success with video game inspired adaptations. The Witcher starring Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, and Jodhi May is a Netflix original series based on the video game franchise of the same name. Its first season received a 92% audience approval from Rotten Tomatoes. It makes sense that Ubisoft would trust Netflix with brining it’s Assassin’s Creed to television.
Ubisoft Film & Television’s mission is to bring Ubisoft’s award-winning games into new areas of entertainment and to create original stories set in the world, culture, and community of gaming. The division has a slate of IP-based and original film and TV projects in various stages of development and production, including the films “Tom Clancy’s The Division” (Netflix), “Rabbids” (Lionsgate), “Just Dance” (Screen Gems), “Beyond Good & Evil” (Netflix), the independent feature “Werewolves Within,” the current series “Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet” (Apple TV+) and “Rabbids Invasion” (season 4 on Netflix) among others.
There is no information on what the Netflix Assassin’s Creed animated or anime series plans will be like. The wording in anime versus animated makes us wonder if the animated series will be aimed at all age audiences and the anime at an older audience.
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