Since 2016, Ubisoft and Netflix have been in talks to produce multiple adaptations of Assassin’s Creed for the popular streaming service and now, after nearly a decade, those talks are seemingly coming into fruition.
In 2020, Ubisoft and Netflix formally announced that they were working on a live-action series as well as an animated and anime series based on Assassin’s Creed, though little has been revealed about any series so far.
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Recently, Ubisoft and Netflix announced that British-Australian actor Toby Wallace was cast as the live-action Assassin’s Creed series’ first regular cast member, with Roberto Patino and David Wiener as creators and showrunners.
However, a new rumor has finally suggested at least one time period the first live-action Assassin’s Creed series may explore: Ancient Rome.
Ancient Rome in Assassin’s Creed
According to an anonymous source from Nexus Point News, Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed series will be set in Ancient Rome, specifically around 54 C.E. and feature the historical figures of Roman Emperor Nero and his tutor Seneca the Younger.
In 2020, Ubisoft and Netflix formally announced that they were working on a live-action series […]
Ancient Rome has been largely untouched by the AC games so far, besides Aya’s brief visit to Rome to assassinate Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.E at the end of Assassin’s Creed Origins, roughly 100 years before the Netflix series’ supposed setting.
No official details on Netflix’s AC series’ historical setting or characters have been revealed yet, but in the press release announcing Wallace’s casting, Brittany Spurlin did claim that the show will follow characters across “pivotal historical events.”
If this rumor turns out to be true, Ancient Rome and the death of Nero could be one of the pivotal historical events depicted in the show, as Nero was the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and his death sparked a brief civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
This historical setting can additionally be a way for fans to finally witness Aya’s Hidden Ones legacy in Ancient Rome, as Aya, later known as Amunet, chose to stay in Rome to build up the Brotherhood in the city instead of remaining in Egypt with Bayek at the end of Origins.
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