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Desmond hive, your moment is now. Assassin's Creed Origins actor Abubakar Salim has given some guidance to the creators of Netflix's upcoming live-action adaptation – and it involves the divisive modern-day sections from the franchise's lore.
Especially with something like Assassin's Creed, where it's had so many years in the game space, you have to listen to the fans there in regards to really paying service and homage to it, because it's one of those where it's so easy to try and innovate on it when it doesn't really need innovation," Salim, who played Bayek in the Egyptian-set outing, told Screen Rant.
Salim continued, "It just needs its core, which is the creed itself, the historical elements of it, and the core modern-day stuff as well."
If you're a Templar-come-lately to the Assassin's Creed franchise, you may not remember the passionate debate and furore surrounding the modern-day setting.
Frequently used as a narrative wrapper to introduce players to each fresh historical setting via the Animus device and the shadowy Abstergo corporation, the modern-day exploits of Nolan North's Desmond soon intruded on Assassin's Creed's unique selling point of leaping around virtual ancient landscapes.
Reactions were divided – but the storyline's sudden end in Assassin's Creed 3 curtailed hopes of a present-day spin-off.
The Assassin's Creed Netflix show re-emerged last year, with Toby Wallace and Lola Petticrew among the leads. Filming is currently underway, and we've even been clued in on the date and setting of the live-action show: 64 AD in Rome, the year of the city's Great Fire. Toasty. No word yet, though, on how the present-day moments will be incorporated, if at all.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, a remake of the seafaring fourth entry in the series, is setting sail on July 9.
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