If any filmmaker and star are going to pull off adapting a super popular video game into credibly excellent film, director Justin Kurzel and star/producer Michael Fassbender are as good of a bet as you're going to get. Since pairing on Kurzel's wild, glorious Macbeth adaptation (and re-teaming Fassbender with his Macbeth co-star Marion Cottilard), the two re-team here for the adaptation to Ubisoft's best-selling game franchise Assassin's Creed. Fassbender plays Callum Lynch, a prisoner who is sent on a time-traveling mission to recconect with his ancestor Aguilar, a 15th century Spanish assassin. Playwright Michael Lesslie provides the script.