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Topics: Netflix, Ubisoft, The Last of Us, Film and TV, HBO
Callum Jones
Topics: Netflix, Ubisoft, The Last of Us, Film and TV, HBO
If you love HBO’s The Last of Us and cannot wait for season two of Fallout to drop on Amazon Prime Video, then strap in; there’s a brand-new series in the works at Netflix that should be right up your street.
When it comes to live-action remakes, Netflix currently has a truckload in the works.
For example, season two of One Piece and Avatar: The Last Airbender are set to land next year, with Captain Planet also being recently confirmed to be on the way from Berlanti Productions and Appian Way.
Another exciting live-action showcase that was confirmed earlier this week is an adaptation of the iconic Assassin’s Creed video game series.
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The announcement is apparently five years in the making, with the Radio Times reporting that developer Ubisoft has been in talks for an adaptation since 2020.
The series will be headed up by Roberto Patino and David Wiener, who will work as creators, showrunners and executive producers on the hugely anticipated series.
"We've been fans of Assassin's Creed since its release in 2007," the creators said. "Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin's Creed opens up to us.
"Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour and the thrills is a baseline for the most essential kind of human story – about people searching for purpose, struggling with questions of identity and destiny and faith."
Patino and Wiener added: "It is about power and violence and sex and greed and vengeance. But more than anything, this is a show about the value of human connection, across cultures, across time. And it's about what we stand to lose as a species, when those connections break.
"We've got an amazing team behind us with the folks at Ubisoft and our champions at Netflix, and we're committed to creating something undeniable for fans all over the planet."
The Last of Us and Fallout are perfect examples of how video game franchises can be adapted to film and TV in a truly awesome way.
However, an Assassin's Creed movie dropped in 2016 and it's safe to say it wasn't received well at all by fans and critics.
Heck, the film sits at a lowly 18 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes to this day, so surely the live-action series can't be any worse?
No release date for the new Netflix series has been detailed as of yet.