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Assassin's Creed: Will it break the Video game curse?

So today an official image of Michael Fassbender was released to the public for the Assassin's Creed movie which is coming out on December 21st 2016. Fassbender will play Callum Lynch, a character made specifically for the film. Lynch discovers that he is the descendant of the Assassin's Guild and relives the memories of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain. Gaining the skills and knowledge of his ancestor he's able to take on the Knights Templar in present day.

Personally I love Assassin's Creed. It's a great game series and I'm loving the costume that Fassbender is wearing is almost like it's taken out of the game. With the hood and the arm blades all looking so authentic.

It's also good to point out that the film seems to be respecting the time period in which Aguilar lives in as the costume has a very 15th Century-esque look to it so I'm glad they're taking the material seriously.

However, I do feel that making up new characters instead of using the characters from the original game could prove risky. I guess it would help to keep it fresh by giving audiences a new story, but for the creative team to have too much creative control might be harmful to the film. But we have yet to see a trailer to any final judgements will be held until that is released.

But so far I think this film is shaping up to be great! Which is unexpected as film adaptations of video games have a reputation of being horrible (Just see the Resident Evil franchise or, God forbid, Super Mario Bros.) But lately we seem to be having a film/game renaissance with this Assassin's Creed film and talks of a Uncharted film and a Tomb Raider reboot we could finally be getting good films of video games!


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