Assassin’s Creed didn’t work out in movies, so Ubisoft is bringing the franchise to the stage instead
Assassin's Creed hasn't been doing the best these last few years. With games that failed to live up to the golden standards set by their predecessors, the franchise has entered a sort of limbo where every release tied to it is met with skepticism rather than excitement. A few years ago, while the series was still living off its prime, Ubisoft tried to pivot into moviemaking. The end result wasn't great, nor did the box office see it perform as well as it should, and so that was the end of that story, too. But now, Ubisoft wants to bring Assassin's Creed to the stage. Heredis: Echoes of the Past will see the franchise as a basis of a stage production that, as Rock Paper Shotgun writes , will be marked by "acrobatics, urban parkour, choreographed combat, and physical feats within large-scale immersive visual environments." It's not adapting any game per se, but will rather portray various historical epochs, much as the franchise itself has done ...