Assassin’s Creed Film Deal With Sony Grants Ubisoft Creative Control

8 November 2011

Posted by:Meg

Details of the Sony/Ubisoft Motion Pictures deal to distribute the ‘Assassin’s Creed’ movie have been revealed!

Following the news that videogame developer and publisher Ubisoft had formed their own film company, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, it seems they are eager to get working on film adaptations of some of their most successful game franchises such as Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon.

Assassin’s Creed however seems to be taking priority. Not surprising really, considering the ever-expanding franchise material on offer; from Graphic novels to books and animated movies it’s an impressive series and the narrative potential and cinematic nature of the games could work well on the silver screen.

According to Vulture, the deal Sony signed with Ubisoft is unlike any other in that it almost grants Ubisoft Motion Pictures full creative control as well as approval over the script, casting decisions, budget and release date. Considering the slew of past game-to-movie flops, the more control Ubisoft has might just be for the best.

Not familiar with the series? Take a look at the goose pimple-inducing Assassin’s Creed: Revelations trailer!

So what do you think? Are you looking forward to an Assassin’s Creed film? Don’t forget to leave your comments and opinions in the section below!

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Pietbakker

ofcourse we want the movie!
http://www.facebook.com/dom.cross1 Dom Cross

i hope they dont try to cram all the games into 1 film though it would be too much to do, they could easily make a trilogy or 4-5 films of these games and they would be just as great as each one of the games
Matt Videll

I agree with you
Matt Videll

i hope they start with assassins creed one with altair then work through every game.
Matt Videll

In AC i hope they show Altair and Maria and they HAVE to show Desmond.
supermcawsomevill

People. There is allready a movie to assassins cread. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcE8xJkK6t4
Matt Videll

dude thats a short video. we are talking about ubisoft making an actual movie. one that will be shown in theaters. everyone else here has already known about and seen the short prelude movies for ac2. next time do your research and type in assassins creed movie silver screen deal.