UBISOFT® AND NEW REGENCY PARTNER ON ASSASSINS CREED® FILM
Deal Builds on Attachment of Michael Fassbender
SAN FRANCISCO October 22, 2012 Today, Ubisoft® and New Regency announced that they are partnering on the forthcoming Assassins Creed® film.
Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the film and television division of Ubisoft, will develop the Assassins Creed film in close collaboration with New Regency. The development of a screenplay is beginning immediately and the project is being fast tracked as the creative pieces come together, while allowing Ubisoft to maintain control of key elements of the movies creative direction. Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed.
Ubisoft chose to partner with New Regency because they are a talent- and filmmaker-driven company, with the same independent and creative mindset that we have at Ubisoft Motion Pictures, said Jean-Julien Baronnet, chief executive officer, Ubisoft Motion Pictures. Bringing aboard New Regencys renowned production and distribution expertise while maintaining our own creative and financial flexibility ensures that Assassins Creed will be a high-quality film that respects the lore and fans of the video game franchise.
The partnership with New Regency comes hot on the heels of Ubisoft Motion Pictures attaching distinguished actor Michael Fassbender to the Assassins Creed film.
We wanted to do everything we could to secure the rights to Assassin's Creed, which Ubisoft has maintained with such care and quality over the years, said Brad Weston, president and chief executive officer, New Regency. "Having just finished working with Michael on Steve McQueens 12 Years A Slave (with Plan B) made the partnership even more irresistible."
Ubisoft Motion Pictures was created in January 2011 to expand the audience of Ubisofts successful video game brands by bringing them to film, television and Web series.
In addition to the Assassins Creed movie, the studio also is in production on the Rabbids TV series, a collection of 78 seven-minute CGI episodes based on the insane, hilarious and silly stars of the video game franchise of the same name, in partnership with France Televisions and Nickelodeon. Ubisoft Motion Pictures also has two additional feature-length films in development based on the Tom Clancys Splinter Cell and Tom Clancys Ghost Recon video game franchises.
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