Its director has worked on an award-winning HBO show.
Announced back in June 2025, Netflix is developing a brand new Assassin’s Creed TV show – and it just got an award-winning director attached to it.
As reported by Variety , Johan Renck has signed on to direct the TV series. He’s most well known for his work on HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries, which earned him an Emmy award.
Alongside its director, the Assassin’s Creed show is starting to build out an impressive cast of actors, one of which has featured in another huge HBO show. Toby Wallace is set to be part of the cast with a recent credit in the upcoming series of Euphoria.
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Here are the rest of the cast names we know so far:
- Toby Wallace
- Lola Petticrew
- Tanzyn Crawford
- Zachary Hart
- Laura Marcus
Wallace and Pettricrew are listed as leads while Hart and Marcus are down as recurring characters. It’s not yet known which characters they’ll be playing, or if they’ll be brand new for the franchise.
Petticrew might be known to audiences for her performances in Say Nothing and Trespasses. Meanwhile, Hart’s most recent appearance was in an episode of Slow Horses, while Marcus is set to appear in the upcoming Sunrise on the Reaping Hunger Game prequel movie.
This early in development, story details are completely under wraps for the Assassin’s Creed show. Netflix hasn’t confirmed if it will be retelling the story that the games have already trodden, or if this will be a completely new narrative entirely.
Ubisoft did attempt to expand Assassin’s Creed to the silver screen in the past, but it wasn’t all that successful. The 2016 movie starring Michael Fassbender currently sits at an 18% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with it weirdly choosing to focus more on the present day – the most boring part of AC – instead of diving into the protagonist’s ancestral past.
As an avid Assassin’s Creed fan, I’ve got my fingers crossed that Netflix knows what it’s doing with this upcoming series. Video game adaptations thankfully seemed to have turned a corner with the likes of Fallout, Arcane and The Last of Us mostly earning positive favour among audiences.
There’s currently no release date for the Netflix Assassin’s Creed series with production only just starting to ramp up. As such, we’d expect to see more towards the end of 2026 if not into early 2027.
If Netflix does manage to push the show out by the end of 2026, it’s set to be a big year for the French video game maker. Rumour has it that the long-awaited remake of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag is due to drop in 2026 as well as the upcoming remake of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.
