Michael Fassbender To Play Desmond Miles/altair/ezio/connor In Ac Movie(S)

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Michael Fassbender (Inglorious Basterds, Prometheus) has signed on to star and co-produce Ubisoft's internally written and produced Assassin's Creed movie.

Fassbender will play the title character of the game franchise, Desmond Miles, who learns that his ancestors were trained assassins only after he is kidnapped by a mysterious organization related to the Knights Templar. They strap him into a machine that allows him to project himself back into any of his previous ancestors, so that he winds up as as an assassin in the Holy Land during the Crusaders, or on a quest to avenge his family's death in Renaissance-era Italy. It's not a question of whether that kind of setup would work, but which historical adventure they'll pick for Fassbender on his first go-round.