Marion Cotillard to star in Assassin's Creed

The New Regency and Ubisoft adaptation of ‘Assassin’s Creed’ has turned into a ‘Macbeth’ reunion. Marion Cotillard has signed on to star with Michael Fassbender in the Justin Kurzel-directed ‘Assassin’s Creed’, the live-action adaptation of the Ubisoft video game. They starred together in ‘Macbeth’, and Kurzel directed the film, which The Weinstein Company will release later this year.

They’re keeping under wraps the role that Cotillard plays, but she’s a versatile actress who won the Oscar for La Vie En Rose, and also played an action role in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’. Like Fassbender, her role is meant to span multiple films if this one scores and becomes a franchise. New Regency and Ubisoft has married pedigree elements to a big-selling video game, a formula that has served Marvel well in building its franchises. Ubisoft’s ‘Assassin’s Creed’ video game has sold over 91 million units.

Production will begin in early fall for a December 21, 2016 release through Fox, and the film is being co-financed by RatPac and Alpha Pictures.