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Netflix\u2019s live-action show has entered production and will officially be set in Rome in the year 64AD, confirming reports.<\/p>\n
The upcoming adaptation, then, will return to the setting of 2010\u2019s Assassin\u2019s Creed Brotherhood<\/em>, although the latter\u2019s story took place more than 1,000 years after the events we’ll see in Netflix’s show. Ubisoft confirmed in a that the Netflix series will tell an original story centered on a war between the Templar Order and the Assassin Brotherhood, who each have very different ideas on how the future of mankind should look.<\/p>\n The full ensemble cast has also now been announced. Sandra Guldberg-Kampp (Foundation<\/em>), Youssef Kerkour (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms<\/em>), Mirren Mack (28 Years Later: The Bone Temple<\/em>), and Louis McCartney (Broadway production Stranger Things: The First Shadow<\/em>) have all been cast as recurring characters. Netflix previously Lola Pettigrew (Trespasses<\/em>) and Toby Wallace (Babyteeth<\/em>) as possible leads, along with a number of other series regulars.<\/p>\n Roberto Patino (Westworld<\/em>, Sons of Anarchy<\/em>) and David Wiener (Halo<\/em>, The Killing<\/em>) are serving as creators, showrunners and executive producers on the show, which is primarily filming at Rome\u2019s iconic Cinecitt\u00e0 Studios. No release date has been announced.<\/p>\n Assassin\u2019s Creed <\/em>won\u2019t represent the first time that Netflix has adapted a Ubisoft property. 2023\u2019s <\/em>\u00a0<\/em>was based on a Far Cry 3 <\/em>expansion, and last year Sam Fisher made his TV in the broadly well received Splinter Cell: Deathwatch. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n