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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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Surely they'd have a decent script to serve these two awesome actors. They're both in great form.

Caught Cotillard in Two Days, One Night last year and she was brilliant in it.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> She's pretty terrible..........she just acts like herself in all of her movies. Can't even hide her frog accent, she always has to be french because she can't pretend to be anything else.

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Can I "game" her?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> She probably played the 'game' enough to get where she is like every other actress on earth, so don't expect fresh goods

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Misogyny at its best...I'm guessing you don't have a mother.

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Well it wouldn't be the first exceptionally pretty girl in a horrible movie.

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Transformer's Age of Extinction & Mark Walhberg's insanely hot daughter

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Shes dreamy.

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Where is Uwe boll when you need him lol

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This has the potential to be the first genuinely good video game-based movie

The downside is that it will probably be cancelled or end up in development hell. Potentially good game-based movies never make it to production: see Halo, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Uncharted, the list goes on.

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This movie requires Assassins Creed Black Flag and Unity to view. If you want uncut/not blurd nude scenes you'll need Assassins Creed Revelations.

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No video game should be turned into a movie, ever. The vision never lives up to what people expect.

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Damn Ubisoft is a powerhouse to get Fassbender and the sexy French chick.. But what's up with all of these movies based on games being announced lately?

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I wonder if she is Lucy? Shouldn't Kristen Bell be in this?

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Movies about games sucked,sucks and will suck, there are very few that were good, and this one will suck also.

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What a sucker for sucking.

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There is plenty of sucking to do when it comes to this actress.

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Oh you good at those! Does this actress look like liza del sierra?

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Just watch the movie "Une affaire privée" to make yourself an opinion. Plenty of "bushy" full frontal and back shots of that french actress.

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Movies I'm praying will exist at some point. Halo (A REAL movie not a mini-series), Splinter Cell (Which has to have Michael Ironside in it, in some capacity) Mass Effect (Maybe with a fem Shep just for good measure) Uncharted (With Nathan Fillion as Nathan Drake....after he's worked out some, of course...)

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a) I hope the movie is good, because I would not like to see two of my favourite actors ever (Cotillard and Fassbender) destroy their careers.


b) Emanuel... Marion Cotillard has done movies quite better than Inception and Batman, arguably the worst roles I've seen her play. I get that most of what she has done in Hollywood is worse than her french movies, but if you want American, she plays amazing roles in Nine, Public Enemies or even Big Fish, and they are known enough to be used as a reference.

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Nine and Public Enemy were awful and although it's a great movie, no one saw Big Fish. I'm pretty sure that more people have seen Dark Knight Rises and Inception than all of her other movies combined. Why not reference them?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Not speaking about the movies themselves, I'm speaking about the performance.


In both Inception and Batman her performance is unremarkable. In Nine, like the movie or not, she was breathtaking.


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And we are speaking about someone acting in a language which is not her mothertongue.


I get the reference because it's meant to gamers, not to film experts, I'm just saying it's unfair to her, and that there are other known movies in which she did a much better job (and notice that I have not said a word of her french movies, in which she is generally plain amazing).


Someone who has just seen her in Batman and Inception might think she is just a cute yet mediocre french actress.



Also, I found Public Enemies great, although I'll grant you it's a rather unconventional movie.

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It was ridiculously bad

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She'll cost extra at the theater.

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yay another RE evil movie : /

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Please be a success... I'd love the movie industry to be dominated by great video-games movies, same way it's currently dominated by comic-book movies.. Hope this and Warcraft kick-start it next year

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Alternatively, Blur Studios' cutscenes in Halo 4 and 2 Anniversary are so good that a full-CGI Halo movie could be a success

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