The Assassin’s Creed movie finished its principal photography last month, and now Michael Fassbender can finally talk about the movie. He chatted with Empire Magazine briefly about the film, not due out until the end of the year. Fassbender seems he’s most excited about the look and feel of the film, one that will take place in both the past in the 15th Century and the modern day, with the actor playing both roles.
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“There’s very little green screen in this, which is highly unusual in these films,” he said. They took filming to on-location sets in Spain and Malta, alongside London, and that meant stunts that will mirror the amazing feats seen in the videogame franchise from Ubisoft.
“We have stunt guys jumping across buildings in Valletta,” in Malta, he explained. The signature motion from the games, though, is the “leap of faith,” where with an eagle cry, the assassin jumps from a tall building, usually into a barrel of straw. Well, we’ll see that, too.
“We’ve got Damian Walters doing a 120-foot leap of faith, without any rope, into a bag,” he said. “It’s pretty incredible to see.”
The movie hopes to break the video-game adaptation curse, where, despite the incredible success of other similar franchises from novels and comic books in theaters, video games have never taken a similar hold. Fassbender looks at the use of the genetic memories that link his two characters and the device they use to unlock those to allow him to experience his ancestor’s life as something familiar to scifi fans in general, if not video game players.
“I’ve always though about The Matrix when we’ve approached this,” he said. In the seminal film, people are jacked into an elaborate computer-generated world, living a fake life, so it’s a fair comparison to draw.
Assassin’s Creed hits theaters December 21, 2016.
