July 21, 2025, 10:10 am | Read time: 3 minutes
Video game adaptations are booming and increasingly becoming reliable box office hits, as adaptations like “Super Mario Bros.” or the “Sonic” trilogy impressively demonstrate. Streaming services also want a significant piece of this pie, with Netflix leading the charge. Formats such as “Castlevania” or “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners,” based on gaming templates, already exist, and more major projects are currently in the works–including a series based on the most successful game of all time. Now, Netflix has officially confirmed an “Assassin’s Creed” series, marking the next big game franchise to be adapted.
Netflix’s “Assassin’s Creed” Series Has Been Long Planned
This is according to a report from the U.S. industry magazine “Variety.” The report states that the “Assassin’s Creed” series has been in development at Netflix for five years, during which the project has undergone several personnel changes.
Currently, Roberto Patino and David Wiener are appointed as series creators, showrunners, and executive producers–forming a creative leadership duo. Patino has previously co-produced “Sons of Anarchy” and “Westworld,” while Wiener has credits such as “Fear the Walking Dead” and the game adaptation “Halo.”
The producers certainly have enough experience with high-profile projects. Additionally, the French game studio Ubisoft, home of the “Assassin’s Creed” series, is providing more executive producers, including Gérard Guillemot, a founding member of Ubisoft.
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What It’s About
There are not many details available yet, such as the cast. However, there is a preliminary plot summary. The story centers on two factions waging a secret war in the shadows. One side aims to determine humanity’s future through control and manipulation, while the other fights for free will. The fate of humanity is decided in battles across various significant moments in history. Similar to the games, time travel and visiting different eras, countries, and cultures will play a central role.
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It’s currently too early for a release date for “Assassin’s Creed” on Netflix. Meanwhile, Netflix and Ubisoft have a deal under which “Rabbids Invasion” and “Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix” have already been released. A series titled “Splinter Cell: Deathwatch” is set to premiere at the end of 2025. All these titles are animated series, but “Assassin’s Creed” is expected to be the first live-action series from the Netflix-Ubisoft deal.
Incidentally, there was a film adaptation of the game series in 2016, featuring a prominent cast including Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, and Jeremy Irons. However, it received poor reviews at the time and quickly became a flop.