UPDATE: Michael Fassbender To Star As Desmond Miles In ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Movie

That’s right folks! It was announced today that Michael Fassbender will not only be Co-Producing the Assassin’s Creed film adaptation, but he will be STARRING in it too!

“Michael Fassbender was our first choice” to play the franchise’s iconic hooded hero, said Jean-Julien Baronnet, CEO of Paris-based Ubisoft Motion Pictures. “Michael (Fassbender) is an extremely smart, talented, versatile and committed actor.”

Talks with Sony have since halted and the French videogame developer has created it’s own studio, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, and plans on releasing not only the Assassin’s Creed movies on their own but Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon ones as well!

Though the release doesn’t say WHO Fassbender will be playing, we can all assume he is going to be the series protagonist Desmond Miles.

For more info check out the full story HERE.

UPDATE: LA Times has now confirmed that the actor will be playing the role of Desmond Miles.

Fassbender, who will play Miles, has a unique cachet. He’s a highly skilled actor who’s also hugely popular, something that can’t be said of many of the actors who’ve tried this before.