Almost five years after it was announced, Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed TV series is now moving ahead.

Netflix has officially greenlit the show and announced that Robert Patino (Westworld, Sons of Anarchy) and David Wiener (Halo, The Killing) are the creators, showrunners, and executive producers. In 2023, the previous showrunner, Jeb Stuart, quit the show over a “difference in vision.”

Here is the official description for the TV show (via THR): “Assassin’s Creed is a high-octane thriller centered on the secret war between two shadowy factions–one set on determining mankind’s future through control and manipulation, while the other fights to preserve free will. The series follows its characters across pivotal historical events as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny.”

Wiener and Patino said in a joint statement that they’ve been fans of the Assassin’s Creed series since it debuted in 2007, adding that they are “excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin’s Creed opens to us.”

“Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour, and the thrills is a baseline for the most essential kind of human story–about people searching for purpose, struggling with questions of identity and destiny and faith. It is about power and violence and sex and greed and vengeance,” they said. “But more than anything, this is a show about the value of human connection, across cultures, across time.”

It’s still early days for the Assassin’s Creed show, and there is no word yet on the cast for the series, nor do we know when it may release.

Before this, 20th Century Fox produced 2016’s live-action Assassin’s Creed movie starring Michael Fassbender, and it made more than $240 million worldwide.

In addition to this new live-action series, Netflix is producing an animated series based on Assassin’s Creed. Ubisoft is also developing a new Assassin’s Creed game for Netflix Games.

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