Netflix Assassin's Creed series gains The Acolyte writers

It might've taken the rumored Assassin's Creed series 5 years to materialize, but it's doing so with a bang. Netflix announced 5 years ago that the game would be adapted into a series, but the project has been on the shelf without any updates. However, it took 5 years, but here is an update for the show, and it's a big one.

Reportedly, Netflix has assembled a writer's room for the much-anticipated series adaptation of the game. The names involved in this project are some very big ones, including Claire Kiechel for The Acolyte.

Here's everything we know about his exciting project.

Netflix's Assassin's Creed writing team has been assembled

Netflix has been planning to adapt the Assassin's Creed video game into a TV series for a long time, but there was no update after the initial announcement in 2020 for 5 years. However, according to reports, the show has been slated for the 2025-26 broadcast season. This means that the show is set to release sometime in 2025-26. Considering it took 5 years to assemble the writing room, there is a high chance that this release date will be altered.

Emily St. John Mandel, the author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel, an award-winning post-apocalyptic fiction novelist, is set to join the project. This is not the writer's first foray into a series adaptation, as she also served as an executive producer in the HBO series adaptation of her novel The Glass Hotel. She's also serving as an executive story editor on the God of War series, a PlayStation adaptation.

Along with Claire Kiechel from The Acolyte and Jaquén Castellanos from The Affair and Good American Family as co-executive producers. Sanaz Toossi from A League of Their Own and her Iran-set play English (currently on Broadway) as staff writer, and Sam Reynolds from the ill-fated TV spin-off of The Walking Dead, titled The Walking Dead: World Beyond, as writer.

There is no update as of now on the plotline of the upcoming Assassin's Creed series adaptation, but Halo's David Wiener and Westworld's Roberto Patino are listed as the showrunners for the series, so it is in great hands. This is a slightly risky project, considering that the last Assassin's Creed project, a 2016 science-fiction feature, was poorly reviewed by fans as well as critics. Nevertheless, the feature earned a profit of over $240 million globally, so maybe it's not that risky.

It will be exciting to see how this project turns out for Netflix.

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