Variety reports that the red hot actor, who is currently working on Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave, has signed on to star and co-produce the film. The first Assassin's Creed game followed a bartender named Desmond Miles, who discovers that he comes from a long line of assassins. Captured by a secret corporation who are basically a front for the Knights Templar, Miles is repeatedly sent back through time and into the body of other assassins in order to steal valuable objects of historical significance. His first jump put him into the body of Altaïr ibn La'Ahad, who was an assassin who lived during the time of the Crusades. It's unclear whether Fassbender would play Desmond, Altair, or maybe even a character from one of the other games.
We don't know what Ubisoft has planned yet, but clearly the goal is to make this into a franchise. They couldn't have found a better way to do that than by securing Fassbender, who has his pick of pretty much any role he wants. High profile directors will probably be lining up to take on this film now, but as of this point there isn't even a writer attached. Fassbender has a ton of stuff coming up, and things could change quickly considering we're probably a long ways off from seeing this film hit screens.
