News Assassin’s Creed Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed Series Is Moving Forward We hope the rooftops of history are ready for all this running. By Molly Templeton | Published on July 17, 2025 Screenshot: 20th Century Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: 20th Century Studios Five years ago, Netflix and the game developer Ubisoft announced a live-action Assassin’s Creed series. Five years is a long time (especially when one of those years is 2020), and according to Variety, the show “has gone through multiple creative teams in that time.” But at long last, the streamer is “officially moving forward” with Roberto Patino and David Wiener as creators and showrunners. Patino and Weiner said, in a statement quoted by Variety: Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin’s Creed opens 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. 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. The Assassin’s Creed series began in 2007, when the first game was released; there have been more than a dozen games since then (and a poorly received 2016 movie starring Michael Fassbender, pictured above). The games center on a conflict between the Order of Assassins and the Knights Templar; you play an assassin (naturally) changing the fate of the world whilst experiencing what one of my esteemed colleagues described as a history parkour simulator. Or, as the logline for the show puts it, it’s “centered on the secret war between two shadowy factions — one set on determining mankind’s future through control and manipulation, while the other fights to preserve free will. The series follows its characters across pivotal historical events as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny.” Patino and Weiner have both worked on other adaptations: Patino developed DMZ (and was a writer and producer on Westworld), and Weiner was the showrunner for the second season of Halo and for the Brave New World adaptation of some years back. There’s no word yet on when the series will arrive.[end-mark] The post Netflix’s <i>Assassin’s Creed</i> Series Is Moving Forward appeared first on Reactor.