Five years later, it's finally go time for Netflix's live-action Assassin's Creed series

Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed adaptation – which was first announced in 2020 – is finally moving forward.

The long-in-the-works adaptation based on Ubisoft’s games is being helmed by Roberto Patino (DMZ, Westworld, Sons of Anarchy) and David Wiener (Halo, Homecoming, The Killing), who will serve as creators, showrunners, and executive producers on the show.

“We’ve been fans of Assassin’s Creed since its release in 2007,” Wiener and Patino told Variety. “Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin’s Creed opens to us. 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.”