{"id":109581,"date":"2020-11-01T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/assassins-creed-tv-show-netflix-success\/"},"modified":"2020-11-01T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T17:48:12","slug":"how-can-netflix-pull-off-an-assassins-creed-series-game-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/11\/01\/how-can-netflix-pull-off-an-assassins-creed-series-game-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"How can Netflix Pull off an Assassin’s Creed Series? | Game Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Video game movies have never really had it easy. Whether it\u2019s the difficulty of translating interactive experiences into something that\u2019s entertaining to sit through only watching, or be it down to the blandness and generic traits associated with several game protagonists, it\u2019s safe to say game inspired movies typically fall short<\/a> of their perceived potential and Assassin’s Creed<\/em><\/strong> was no different.<\/p>\n

With news that Netflix is developing a live action Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em><\/a> series, there\u2019s new hope that the network can match The Witcher\u2019s<\/em> positive impact, especially by sticking to a series format that would lend itself much better to the slow-paced progression games are written for. But exactly what else needs to be done to achieve perfect synchronization between games and TV?<\/p>\n

RELATED: Ranking All 11 Assassin’s Creed Games<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The forgettable Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/em><\/a> movie opted to go with entirely new protagonists, having Michael Fassbender play modern Callum Lynch alongside Spanish inquisition assassin Aguilar de Nerha. It was a reasonable decision that wasn’t overly successful. Building a protagonist out of thin air is not easy and it was wholly unnecessary when the franchise\u00a0had\u00a0its own share of assassins with captivating storylines.<\/p>\n

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Enter Ezio Auditore da Firenze, mentor of the Italian brotherhood and lead character in Assassin\u2019s Creed\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0best reviewed and most beloved entries. Unlike other assassins, fans got to see Ezio grow from his late teens up to his fifties experiencing the death of his loved ones, his own struggles to establish the Creed during the Renaissance era and his final steps to prevent the world from falling to Templar rule. Ezio\u2019s adventures in Italy and the old Ottoman Empire had some of the best storytelling in the series and there\u2019s no need for that to go to waste. The same could be said for Desmond Miles, who would be there to connect the dots between\u00a0Ezio and any other assassins,\u00a0something the games’ later entries gave up on altogether<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On a side note, the supporting cast has to be much stronger as well; aside from Fassbender and Marion Cotillard’s\u00a0main\u00a0roles, no-one else in the film is all that memorable, a stark contrast to the games’ rich repertoire of charming and menacing historical figures.<\/p>\n

Assassin\u2019s Creed I<\/em> was not the most polished game in the series nor was it the best representative of the stealth-action genre, but a big part of its promise was the possibility to jump in a time machine and go back 1000 years to get a glimpse at what the world looked like back then. This was one of the biggest flaws in 2016\u2019s movie adaptation, not paying enough attention to its Seville setting.<\/p>\n