It’s long past time for an Assassin’s Creed TV show. The popular video game franchise has always been fertile ground for a long-form adaptation. (And we do not mean that 2009 mini-series you didn’t even remember existed.) It blends history, sci-fi, and doing cool ass fighting moves, an truly tremendous trio. But a TV show would allow a deeper exploration of the characters and stories than fans are used to. Now, nearly five years after they announced plans to give us exactly that, Netflix is finally (FINALLY) doing just that and has greenlit a live-action Assassin’s Creed show.
The show started production in March 2026 in Rome, Italy. The streaming giant confirmed that the live-action Assassin’s Creed series will be an original story not from the games that takes place in Rome 64AD.
And, we already know the show’s leading cast. Toby Wallace and Lola Petticrew will star in the live-action Assassin’s Creed series along with Zachary Hart and Laura Marcus as series regulars. Netflix has additionally shared that Noomi Rapace, Ramzy Bedia, Sean Harris, and Corrado Invernizzi will join the series as recurring characters. Deadline reports that the series is expected to start production in Italy in 2026. According to Variety, Johan Renck will direct the Assassin’s Creed series on Netflix. Nabhaan Rizwan and Claes Bang will also be series regulars. Sandra Guldberg-Kampp, Youssef Kerkour, Mirren Mack, and Louis McCartney round out the show’s cast. Hopefully, we will get character information soon!
This is coming ten years after the ill-fated/mostly loathed 2016 movie adaptation starring Michael Fassbender. The series comes from creators Roberto Patino (DMZ, Westworld, Sons of Anarchy) and David Wiener (Halo, Homecoming, The Killing). They will also serve as showrunners and executive producers.
“We’ve been fans of Assassin’s Creed since its release in 2007. Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin’s Creed opens to us,” said Wiener and Patino in a joint statement. “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.”
For newcomers to the franchise who might not know anything about it, Netflix describes Assassin’s Creed as “a high-octane thriller 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 show’s official logline teases a big series with big ambitions. From Netflix: “The series follows its characters across pivotal historical events as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny.”
If the series can deliver on the promise that an Assassin’s Creed show has always had it’ll be worth the wait. But hopefully it’s not that much longer before it actually arrives on Netflix.
Originally published July 17, 2025.