News Assassin’s Creed Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed Series Snags Eden Actor Toby Wallace in Leading Role What that role is, exactly, remains to be seen. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on November 25, 2025 Photo: Bryan Berlin via Wikimedia Commons/Ubisoft Comment 0 Share New Share Photo: Bryan Berlin via Wikimedia Commons/Ubisoft The Assassin’s Creed live-action television series is moving ahead at Netflix, five years after the company signed a deal with video game company Ubisoft. Today the streamer announced that Toby Wallace is the first actor officially attached to the project. Wallace, whose credits include the movies Eden and The Bikeriders, as well as The Society and the upcoming season of Euphoria, is set to be a series regular and will apparently be a co-lead on the show. Who, exactly, Wallace is playing is unknown. Deadline reports that the leads will be characters “said to be different from the games,” and that we’ll follow them “across pivotal historical events as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny.” The series is based on the popular video game franchise. In it, two factions—the Order of Assassins and the Templars (yes, those Templars)—are in an eons-long struggle to control humanity. The Assassins want to keep free will, while the Templars want to control and manipulate humankind’s future. In our near future, people with Assassin ancestry (which is a thing, I guess), with the help of technology, are able to relive their genetic ancestors’ lives in a simulation called the Animus. Doing so will help them win this war, in part because it helps them gather what are called “pieces of Eden,” technology from beings that used to live on Earth before they were completely wiped out by a solar flare. Gathering these artifacts allows the Assassins to gather info on the Templars, counter their plans, and protect their secrets. And so on. But back to Wallace: given he’s a co-lead, odds are good he’ll either be playing an assassin in the near future who relives his ancestors’ memories, or he’s one of the ancestors in another time period. Or perhaps he’s the antagonist and a member of the Templars. Who knows! What we do know is that production on the series is set to start in Italy in 2026, and that location serves as the setting for the first season. The show is also led by Roberto Patino and David Wiener, with Patino working on Westworld and DMZ, and Wiener showrunning the second season of Paramount+’s Halo. No news yet on when the Assassin’s Creed show will make its way to Netflix. [end-mark] The post Netflix’s <i>Assassin’s Creed</i> Series Snags <i>Eden</i> Actor Toby Wallace in Leading Role appeared first on Reactor.