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Assassin's Creed Movie Casts Oscar-Winning Actress Marion Cotillard

Actress from The Dark Knight Rises and Inception will co-star with Michael Fassbender.

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French actress Marion Cotillard has signed on to the upcoming Assassin's Creed movie.

According to Deadline, Ubisoft and production company The New Regency have yet to reveal her role in the movie.

Cotillard and her co-star Michael Fassbender acted together in an upcoming adaptation of Macbeth, which the director of the Assassin's Creed movie, Justin Kurzel, also directed.

Cotillard, who you might recognize from The Dark Knight Rises or Inception, also won an Oscar for her role as singer Édith Piaf in 2007's biopic La vie en Rose. Fassbender was also nominated for his role in 2013's 12 Years a Slave.

Last week, we learned that the Assassin's Creed movie officially entered production and should start shooting soon. The movie, produced by New Regency and 20th Century Fox, will hit theaters on December 21, 2016. That's one week after the first Star Wars spinoff movie hits cinemas.

Ubisoft is working on five other movies based on its games at the moment: Far Cry, Rabbids, Watch Dogs, Splinter Cell, and Ghost Recon. In all instances, Ubisoft will retain creative control through its Ubisoft Motion Pictures group.

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Please Sign this petition.

Ubisoft: Please change the UNITY's story to the story about French Revolution. << LINK REMOVED >>

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<< LINK REMOVED >> The petition is closed and has 1 person that signed lol

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This movie has potential. Great series and great actors.

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Eugh.... what a terrible actress. Tired of that frog accent.... and her death scene in Dark Knight Rises was probably the worst acted death ever lol.

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hmm movie titles based on games rarely work

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ok, so she is french. .....could mean nothing. Or could mean that they are skipping Altair's story completely and jumping right into Ezio Auditore da Firenz's .....which wouldn't be a terrible idea since his storyline was unquestionably the best of the entire franchise to date.


and yes, i know that Ezio wasn't french, but he was European. As to where Altair was more middle eastern.

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Shes pretty hot, if you know how to use google ;)

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I hope this is better than the new Hitman movie appears to be.

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....and it gets me excited because....??

I've seen plenty of bad movies with good actors already.

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Showing promise...great actors.

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So does this mean she is the Assassin? Or that the Assassin's Creed male actor will be a nobody?

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She that desperate for work?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Do you think Michael Fassbender, the co-protagonist, is that desperate for work?


Either the movie might actually be even good or Ubisoft has paid them enough money to buy New Zealand for their retirement, because they are both amazing actors.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> With her talent she can do better than settling for this. And doing it just because they paid her enough money is the very definition of desperate.

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Inception... What an epic movie.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> meh.

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Hmm, one of my favorite actors and one of my favorite actresses. Never heard of the director though. Only time will tell, I guess it would be pretty cool if they actually made a good movie. But my hopes aren't that high.

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She got on a sinking ship.

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lol the things people will agree to do for a phat paycheck.

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She is one sexy beast

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Yeah the cast is good and the actors know how to pick scripts, but look at the director, only a handful of dark but reasonable indie films from Australia. I don't know, it's coming together in a really weird way but the writers are awful and have written nothing good so far. Maybe it will be good, it certainly doesn't fit the formula of any other game to movie efforts we have seen before. Interesting for sure.

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shes cute

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Because Jake Gyllenhaal sure saved the Prince of Persia movie! *stares vacantly*

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Didn't it get pretty good ratings?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I enjoyed it, but mostly for Gemma Arterton......... mmmm damn

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Indeed. Hahahahahha. Oh my god, that movie.

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Love Cotillard, but I have absolutely Zero faith in this movie.

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No one seems to be Arabic or even look it for this movie.... Am I the only person bothered by this?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Does Andrew Lincoln need to be an authentic American southerner to play Rick Grimes? And she really doesnt look that different from Arabic women << LINK REMOVED >>

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<< LINK REMOVED >> we're not even sure if its set in the Middle East yet,but with the right make-up and hairstyle I'm confident she can pull off any cultural look just fine.

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She's really good, i might have to watch this movie and see if it goes anywhere.

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Maybe this will actually be good. Couldn't be any worse than that wretched Prince of Persia film that somehow still raked in the dough.

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I don't remember any of the AC plots very well. I don't think they were that good. I imagine this movie being really corny and bad though.

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AC feels like it should be a movie. Because no one cares about the present storyline. If it had been a movie with short jaunts into the past people would be more interested

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I wonder if all her facial flesh will peel back in some scenes.

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Some big names attached to this, good ones too.

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They're really working on a movie involving those stupid rabbids...? Why...?

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I'm not a pompous ass, so I'm thoroughly excited for this movie.

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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERM...Could you fix the last game you released first please!!???? ya know...before you start on another clusterf@k

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