An Assassin’s Creed live-action TV series has been officially greenlit by Netflix, Ubisoft confirmed today.

The show, which will follow characters across pivotal historical events as they get involved in the sceret war between two faction, one determined to shape humanity’s future through control, the other fighting to preserve free will, essentially running with the same premise of the video game series focused on the long way between the Assassins and the Templars, is the first series to be developed under the agreement signed back in 2020 between Ubisoft and Netflix to produce content based on the popular series. Emmy nominees Roberto Patino (DMZ, Westworld, Sons of Anarchy) and David Wiener (Halo, Homecoming, The Killing) are set as creators, showrunners, and executive producers of the newly announced show.

“We’ve been fans of Assassin’s Creed since its release in 2007. Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin’s Creed opens to us,” said David Wiener and Rober Patino in a statement. “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. 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 latest entry in the Ubisoft series is Assassin’s Creed Shadows. You can learn more about the solid open-world game set in Feudal Japan released earlier this year on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S by checking out my review.