The filming for Netflix’s live-action Assassin’s Creed series has begun in Rome, Italy.
The show adapts Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed video game franchise, first released in 2007, which has expanded into more than a dozen titles set across major historical settings including the Italian Renaissance, French Revolution, US Independence, Viking-era England, Feudal Japan, and ancient Egypt and Greece.
Roberto Patino (Westworld) and David Wiener (Homecoming) will lead the series as creators, showrunners, and executive producers, while Gerard Guillemot, Margaret Boykin, Austin Dill, and Matt O’Toole serve as producers, and Claire Kiechel and Jaquén Castellanos act as co-executive producers.
Here’s the plot details for Netflix’s live-action Assassin’s Creed series:
“Set in the vast and volatile world of Ancient Rome—an era yet untouched by the franchise—the new series plunges players into the political shadows of Nero’s early reign. As the young emperor tightens his grip on power, his famed tutor and advisor, Seneca the Younger, struggles to curb Nero’s darker impulses. When whispers of corruption, betrayal, and a mysterious hidden order begin to spread through the palaces and forums of Rome, a new assassin emerges from the fringes of the Empire. Tasked with uncovering a conspiracy that entwines Nero’s ascent, Seneca’s uneasy influence, and a plot that reaches from the imperial court to the city’s underbelly, the assassin must navigate shifting loyalties and deadly intrigue. Set between 54–68 AD, this chapter explores the birth of tyranny—and the blade poised to reshape history.”
The confirmed cast members for the series include Toby Wallace, Lola Petticrew, Zachary Hart, Laura Marcus, and Tanzyn Crawford, with Wallace reportedly set to play a series regular and co-lead, although the characters have not yet been revealed.
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise began in 2007 with a game centered on the secret conflict between the Assassins and Templars. The series has since grown to include 13 more games, most recently Assassin’s Creed: Shadows in 2025, and has sold over 230 million copies worldwide, along with a 2016 film adaptation starring Michael Fassbender.
In a statement, Wiener and Patino said, “We’ve been fans of Assassin’s Creed since its release in 2007. Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin’s Creed opens to us.”
They added, “Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour, and the thrills is a baseline for the most essential kind of human story — about people searching for purpose, struggling with questions of identity and destiny and faith. It is about power and violence and sex and greed and vengeance.”
Netflix has not yet announced the release date for the Assassin’s Creed series.
Source: What’s on Netflix
