The upcoming Assassin’s Creed movie is the first in the planned list of Ubisoft video game to film adaptations, and so far it looks like it has quite a bit of effort and detail thrown into it. The most recent major video game adaptation, Warcraft, was a bit of a bust, but the Assassin’s Creed movie appears to be taking a sharp turn from the visual style of Warcraft. Rather than being dominated by CGI visual effects, the vast majority of the action sequences in the movie are boasted as being real, or at least grounded in reality.
20th Century Fox has released a featurette documenting one particular stunt, “one of the highest free falls performed by a stuntman in almost 35 years.” Check it out:
This diving leap is a common occurrence in the Assassin’s Creed video games, known as a “leap of faith.” The player character normally lands in a cart full of hay or leaves or some other soft material and emerges unharmed. While this stretches believability, it remains to be seen what the main character will land in for the final movie.
The Assassin’s Creed movie will be directed by Justin Kurzel, who previously worked with the star of the film, Michael Fassbender, on 2015’s Macbeth. The movie also stars Marion Cotillard (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises), Jeremy Irons (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Borgias), and Brendan Gleeson (Braveheart, Troy). The first official trailer was released back in May, you can watch it right here.
Speaking with Collider in May, Fassbender spoke on a number of subjects relating to the game-adapted movie, including his role in it, where he plays two different characters existing in separate time periods, as is usually the case with the game’s protagonist. Here’s what he had to say:
“Basically in this story, you have somebody who doesn’t realize where he’s coming from. He doesn’t have a lineage he can sort of feel a belonging to. That’s our modern-day protagonist, Cal. He doesn’t realize he’s an Assassin; he’s a bit of a lost soul. He’s always been drifting in and out of correctional facilities. Then, of course, Aguilar is very much somebody that belongs to the Creed. He has a cause, he’s sort of been following that cause. He belongs to it. So they’re the two different standpoints of the character, and hopefully Aguilar will teach Cal, from the regressions, that he does belong to something.”
Assassin’s Creed premiers in theaters on December 21st, 2016.
