'Game of Thrones with parkour': how will Netflix adapt Assassin's Creed?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/nov/04/game-of-thrones-with-parkour-how-will-netflix-adapt-assassins-creed
I can see how a live-action TV series based on the hit video game series might just work. Forget the tortured mythology – just stick to running around and fighting
Few video games have endured like Assassin’s Creed. Twelve different versions have been released since the game was introduced in 2007, each of them more or less clinging to the same highly enjoyable formula. Like history? Like climbing things? Like stabbing people in the skull? Like being intermittently scowled at by Danny Wallace? Like spending the final hour of any pursuit genuinely confused about why an alien has come out of nowhere to instruct you to murder everyone with a sort of glowing death apple? Then Assassin’s Creed is for you.