Assassin's Creed (film)
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| Directed by | Justin Kurzel |
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Assassin's Creed by Ubisoft |
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| Music by | Jed Kurzel |
| Cinematography | Adam Arkapaw |
| Edited by | Christopher Tellefsen |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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116 minutes |
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| Budget | $125 million |
| Box office | $212.8 million |
Assassin's Creed is a 2016 action adventure film based on the video game franchise of the same name. The film is directed by Justin Kurzel, written by Michael Lesslie, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, and stars Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling and Michael K. Williams.
The film is set in the same universe as the video games but features an original story that expands the series' mythology, taking place during the Spanish Inquisition. Filming began in late August 2015 and concluded in January 2016. Assassin's Creed was released on December 21, 2016 in the United States and France, received negative reviews from critics and grossed $212 million worldwide against its $125 million budget.
In 1492, during the Granada War, Aguilar de Nerha is accepted into the Assassins Creed Brotherhood. He is assigned to protect Prince Ahmed de Granada. In 1986, Callum returns home to find his mother killed by his father, Joseph, a modern-day Assassin. As gunmen led by Alan, CEO of the Abstergo Foundation, the modern day Templar front, approach to capture Joseph, the latter convinces the former to escape.
In 2016, Callum is sentenced to death for suspected murder, but is rescued from execution by the Abstergo Foundation, which fakes his death, and transported to their facility in Madrid, Spain. He is told that the Templars are searching for the Apple, which contains the genetic code for free will, in order to subjugate the human race. Sophia, Alan's daughter and the head scientist, reveals that Callum is a descendant of Aguilar and conscripts him to the Animus, which allows him to relive Aguilar's genetic memories so that Abstergo can learn the current whereabouts of the Apple.
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