10 Video Game Franchises Netflix NEEDS To Develop
2. Assassin's Creed
A few years back, video game fans waited in anticipation for the release of the Assassin's Creed film starring a banquet of diverse and highly talented actors. It was met with a resounding, disappointed sigh. But let's be fair, the film wasn't bad.
The movie just spent too much time on the present/future setting - an aspect that bored audiences in the cinemas in the same way it bored gamers sitting at home. The past settings are what entices half the fan-base in, and focusing on the future narrative more is missing the target completely.
Assassin's Creed's mythology is too broad for a film anyway; the sprawling settings of The Crusades, Italian Renaissance or French Revolution would feel much more at home in a ten-episode miniseries where each season focuses on a new game/time period.
It could be an anthology series with a new and mixed cast every season, getting audiences and fans excited about the new time period the show would set itself in.
Like the film, it wouldn't have to follow the games, but if it does then it would have the advantage of the Desmond Miles saga creating a through-line narrative that joins individual seasons together.