Assassin's Creed Movie Trailer Released, Unexpectedly Set Around Spanish Inquisition
Ubisoft and 20th Century Fox have released the first movie trailer for Assassin's Creed. We begin with Michael Fassbender executed, only for Abstergo to be up to their tricks.
Naturally Fassbender's Callum Lynch isn't dead - it would make for quite the short film - but is instead taken to an Abstergo facility where they'll dig into his genetic past. It's here we meet the assassin Aguilar who lived around the time of the Spanish Inquisition.
It seems Ubisoft don't want to follow too closely the original game's journey which began during the Crusades in and around Syria with Altair. The movie also seems to have a completely different take on the Animus device which accesses ancestral memory.
There's plenty of nods to the Assassin's Creed franchise with lots of city shots overlooking rooftops, climbable towers, soaring eagles and ridiculously free-running acrobatics with deadly flourishes. Abstergo looks suitably menacing and sinister too.
We see Callum hooked up to a fancy and intimating crane arm that lets him hop about, which suppsoedly lets him perform the feats he's remembering through the Animus. It would look a bit boring for the film we suppose if he just laid down like in the games.
Its choice of music during the trailer is a bit at odds with everything that's going on and the theme of the film, but that's over-paid marketing executives for you.
Assassin's Creed will be in cinemas this December 2016 worldwide.
