8 Upcoming Movies That It's Actually Worth Getting Excited About

5. The Creative Team Is INSANE - Assassin's Creed

Here we go again. Just like musicals and westerns, we must periodically have expensive video game adaptations attempting to try and show that Hollywood can make the genre work. Next year brings not one, but two in this vein, and while I hate to sound like a Mario fan in 1993, they have real potential to be pretty great movies. The most intriguing is Assassin's Creed. The games may have become the vaguely-historical action equivalent of FIFA, but this film sounds thrilling. Aside from being a franchise that has a delightful, cinematic hook (people in the near-future can travel into their ancestor's memories, while mystical creator beings plot the destruction of Earth), Creed has a real ace in the form of Justin Kurzel. His Macbeth (Cannes review here) is a visually resplendent, stylistically experimental take on well worn material that fully understands the power of the source without being afraid to adjust things to fit its story - all traits that spell success for the Assassin vs. Templar tale. What also makes Assassin's Creed a cut above fellow high-hoped 2016 video game adaptation Warcraft is its cast. While Duncan Jones' (the singular best reason to get excited for that film) movie boasts a cast of unknowns and barely rising stars (and Toby Kebbell, who I will happily never see in anything again after Fant4stic), Kurzel's has two of the most exciting actors working today - Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. Fassbender's the Desmond-esque Callum Lynch, who goes into the memories of Spanish ancestor Aguilar in some story set within the games' world (so you can assume there'll be some tempering of nerd rage there), and based on that promo image released recently, he's certainly a great fit for the part.