In case you needed reminding what Michael Fassbender looks like in Assassin's Creed, game developers Ubisoft and studio 20th Century Fox have released some new images of Fassbender in the movie. The first, above, shows him in hooded form.
Assassin's Creed finds Fassbender as Callum Lynch, an alienated, violent drifter who discovers that he is descended from a 15th century Spanish assassin named Aguilar. "Recruited" (read: disappeared after he's been sentenced to death) by a corporation called Abstergo Industries, Lynch taps into his ancestral memories via a device called the Animus to gain the know-how to fight the Assassins' age-old nemeses, the Templars, in a battle for the future of humanity.
The second image finds Fassbender again, this time as Lynch, wearing decidedly less clothing but still able to make it count while fighting Abstergo goons.
“The idea that we’re made up of who comes before us and the DNA of our ancestors is carried within us is really fresh and original,” Aussie director Justin Kurzel has said of his adaptation. "I just thought that there was a great cinematic story in the ethos behind the game,” adds Fassbender, "this idea of Assassins and Templars. It’s not like your Star Wars franchise where you have the light and the dark side. This is a very muddled-up moral ground."
Finally, we find the Inquisition army led by Javier Gutierrez as Tomas de Torquemada (on the right here). Given the number of people and horses, we'd say anyone with even decent hearing would be able to expect this lot. And the comfy chair is nowhere in sight.
With Marion Cotillard, Ariane Labed, Jeremy Irons and Brendan Gleeson also in the film, Assassin's Creed is out in the UK on December 26. We have all you need to know about the film here.