Netflix finally greenlights live-action Assassin’s Creed series

After years of little-to-no activity regarding its collaboration with Netflix, Ubisoft has finally confirmed that the streaming platform has greenlit the live-action Assassin’s Creed series. Roberto Patino and David Wiener will be the showrunners and the executive producers. At present, there is no planned release date for the series, but it follows in the path of the platform’s other video game adaptations, including Castlevania, Arcane and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

Ubisoft and Netflix first announced their collaboration back in 2020, though there was not much information in the subsequent years about the progress of this live-action series. Now Patino and Wiener say they’re planning to adapt the story of the Assassins and Templars into “a show about the value of human connection, across cultures, across time… about what we stand to lose as a species, when those connections break.”