Fans of Ubisoft’s long running Assassin’s Creed video game franchise are getting their first promotional image teaser for 20th Century Fox and Ubisoft Motion Pictures’ Assassin’s Creed: The Movie, as a poster featuring an eagle flying around what appears to be the Animus is embedded in a nice one sheet design that was featured in Global License! magazine (as reported by Comic Book.com).
The film adaptation, which will Justin Kirzel, will star Macbeth actors Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. Production will begin on August this year, and the film is expected to be released on December 21, 2016. No word has been given on which storyline or plot the game will adapt itself from, but fans are hoping that either Desmond, Altair, or even Ezio Auditore will be in the mix.