deanb Posted August 27, 2015 Report Share Posted August 27, 2015 Michael Fassbender as Callum Lynch. This could be quite good (assuming he can climb the towers to unlock the rest of the movie) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 27, 2015 Report Share Posted August 27, 2015 This could be quite good I'll believe it when I see it (on home media). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted August 27, 2015 Report Share Posted August 27, 2015 This movie is going to be terrible, like every other video game movie ever. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 27, 2015 Report Share Posted August 27, 2015 That's what everyone said about super hero games until Arkham Asylum. There's a first time for everything. But yeah, this probably won't be that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2015 Fassbender not provide an inkling of hope? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 27, 2015 Report Share Posted August 27, 2015 Good actors can be in bad movies. See Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, and Ewin McGregor in Star Wars: Episode I. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted August 28, 2015 Report Share Posted August 28, 2015 It's 2015. Why on earth do we still have image quality like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted August 29, 2015 Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 Just read that Fassbender, co-star Marion Cotillard and the director all just worked together on Macbeth which has very good reviews so there is a possibility the film will be good. but it doesn't need to be good to be enjoyable, I had fun watching the Prince of Persia though I know it wasn't a good film. Having said that the article I read also said that it has spent a lot of time getting rewrites and having different people attached to it which often isn't a good sign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted August 29, 2015 Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 Half the trouble with games based on video games is that they try to imitate the game itself. All I want is a story based in the AC world, if they can make a good one of those we'll be doing well. I trust in Fassbender and Cotillards as damn good actors who are capable of picking a decent project to work on too. Maybe this might actually be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 Half the trouble with games based on video games is that they try to imitate the game itself. Bit early in the morning for you isn't it? Yeah, I'm not sure Fassbender would hop on this if he didn't think it was good. My only counter-point to my "no faith in Fassbender" would be Glyenhall n Kinglsey aren't exactly shit actors and PoP was considered kinda poopy. Though if memory serves it was largely due to being sorta nonsensical (especially given time travel bit) and shit editing can destroy any film. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 29, 2015 Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 ^Yeah but that's my point, even if Fassbender himself does wonderfully that doesn't mean the movie will be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 Half the trouble with games based on video games is that they try to imitate the game itself. Bit early in the morning for you isn't it? Yeah, I'm not sure Fassbender would hop on this if he didn't think it was good. My only counter-point to my "no faith in Fassbender" would be Glyenhall n Kinglsey aren't exactly shit actors and PoP was considered kinda poopy. Though if memory serves it was largely due to being sorta nonsensical (especially given time travel bit) and shit editing can destroy any film. What I mean is, they take the worst aspects of the game and try to make a movie around them. Assassins Creed has some interesting central themes, but in order to earn the money of the 15 year olds they're trying to cater too, they'll largely ignore them and make another boring, predictable action film; only this time with swords. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 I was making a joke that you wrote "games" three times where I'm sure you're meant to have written "films" at least once. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Here's a Guardian article on the project. It's vaguely optimistic, but there's not much to it. It does say Fassbender will be playing both a modern day character and a 15th century Spanish ancestor during the Spanish Inquisition. To make it work I think they'll need to spend a larger proportion of their time in the modern world setting than the games do since you'd probably need the amount of plot they've spread out over the entirety of the game series in the one film. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if they spent the majority of the film's time there. I wonder if it will tie into the game world, e.g. the modern day part could be a continuation of the game's without much difficulty, or if future games will make reference to the spanish inquisition. I'd be equally as happy if it was it's own separate world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 I wonder if they'll have Danny Wallace in it. And it does mention in the embedded tweets it'll be withing universe, just a new story. The reference to "familiar faces" brings my initial question. There's also whatsherface but she was a spy or something...I haven't played for a while. Got Unity to play at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 (edited) I'm not sure about"find some familiar faces" makes it sound fleeting - most of the games end up mentioning altair and his master, to show where things started out so it could be something as simple as that. I just started rogue, so don't know quite where the modern day story ends up. I did think about danny wallace, as I like him, but evidently forgot to mention him. Edited August 31, 2015 by TheFlyingGerbil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted October 5, 2015 Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 two more names for the cast confirmed: Jeremy Irons, for all your intra-familial marriage needs and Brendon Gleeson. I think Gleeson is more of a pointer toward the positive, but Irons is sort of still a big name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2015 Ooooh. Irons is great. Likely our baddie there. Gleeson can do both sides of the coin, I've a feeling middle management Templar maybe. Irons has done Borgias too which AC2 touched upon that era of Rome. Though PoP had Ben Kingsley so Ubisoft can still fuck up solid casts (though I think that was a different company, so with AC is Ubisoft taking tighter reigns). Yeah, PoP was Jerry Bruckheimer and this is "Ubisoft Motion Pictures". Bit like Square Pictures I guess........ Fassbender better be prepared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Irons is a great character actor who can bring the weird intensity. He was perfect as Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune. He's also been in complete shit like Eragon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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deanb Posted December 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 "Your father was a hamster and your mother smells of elderberries" " He says do we want a Piece of Eden... No thanks, we already got one" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 Was just thinking on this the other day that we seemed to be short on trailers and such on this of late. Though he kinda fucked up not using hay, much more effective. (Also given they're assumedly gonna CGI a lot of that footage why not just make a hero model n throw that off a digital tower?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 There are posters up for this at the multiplexes I go to. I think the new trailer will drop in September or October after the August movie-going lull and when new TV seasons begin in the U.S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 (Also given they're assumedly gonna CGI a lot of that footage why not just make a hero model n throw that off a digital tower?) Because CGI is most convincing when it's background/peripheral stuff and the main thing you're actually focused on is real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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