3-Part Assassin’s Creed Replacement Sneaks Up on Streaming Competition 10 Years Later

Published Jul 10, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT

Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he’ll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.

The official movie adaptation of the Assassin’s Creed video game franchise didn’t work, but there are numerous alternatives that fans can check out on television while Netflix adapts the franchise again. The Assassin’s Creed games are simply too popular to ignore, and the times have certainly changed since the ill-fated adaptation headlined by Michael Fassbender. A decade ago, video game adaptations were viewed as a cursed proposition, with several earlier movies such as Hitman and Max Payne struggling both critically and commercially. Assassin’s Creed, directed by **Justin Kurzel **and featuring a shockingly overqualified cast, didn’t fare any better. It grossed around $240 million worldwide against a reported budget of $125 million, and received a terrible 18% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “Assassin’s Creed is arguably better made (and certainly better cast) than most video game adaptations; unfortunately, the CGI-fueled end result is still a joylessly overplotted slog.” With the video game franchise’s latest installment unfolding in feudal Japan, Hollywood has no shortage of options for a reboot. However, fans would agree that the game franchise peaked with the “Ezio trilogy,” which was set in Renaissance-era Italy, and partially in Constantinople. The trilogy’s historical protagonist was the assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze. The games’ success no doubt inspired a string of television shows set in the same era; one of them is witnessing a spike on the PVOD market as we speak.

Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.

You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.

You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.

You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.

You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.

You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.

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