4. Marion Cotillard's A Double Agent - Assassin's Creed
Odds are that 2016 will see the first genuinely great video game adaptation;
The Angry Birds trailer was far from the atrocity many expected and Warcraft has directorial prodigy Duncan Jones at the helm, although the one I'd put money on breaking out of the muck is Assassin's Creed. Reuniting the key creatives behind
the incredible Macbeth (director, writer and cinematographer) with that movie's two big stars (Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard), it has all the key ingredients to do the DNA-travel/end-of-the-world franchise justice. At least that's what you assume - information about the film is pretty thin on the ground. We know that Fassbender is going to be playing Callum Lynch, who goes into his ancestor's memories to visit Civil War-era Spain, but thus far nothing has been revealed about Cotillard's character. A worker at Abstergo (the future company behind the DNA-reading) or a period-only charcater? Hero or villain? She could anything (and that's quite exciting). The one thing she shouldn't be is someone who starts out as Callum/Aguilar's ally before revealing herself a Templar and turning on him in a "shocking" third-act twist. Not only have we been there before with The Dark Knight Rises, but it's the sort of thing a flailing video game adaptation would do to artificially create drama and get people talking about its plot, despite it being a trope as old as the Assassins.