EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Set To Explore Ancient Rome

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As announced earlier this week, Toby Wallace (Euphoria) is set to star in Netflix’s upcoming Assassin’s Creed series. This will be the franchise’s second attempt at a live action adaptation.

Sources tell Nexus Point News that the series is set to explore Ancient Rome, a period in the franchise that has been untouched. Additionally, the series will feature figures like Emperor Nero and Seneca the Younger, who served as Nero’s tutor. This would potentially date the series as being set somewhere between 54-68 AD, if Nero is to be emperor. Details on Toby Wallace’s character are being kept under wraps but the character will be part of an ensemble cast featuring multiple other younger characters.

Robert Patino (DMZ) and David Wiener (Halo) will serve as showrunners and executive producers for Assassin’s Creed. Additionally, the series is being executive produced by Gerard Guillemot, Margaret Boykin, Austin Dill, Genevieve Jones for Ubisoft and Matt O’Toole. The franchise was previously adapted as a 20th Century Fox feature film starring Michael Fassbender and directed by Justin Kurzel. The film explored the Spanish Inquisition.

Assassin’s Creed is centered on the millennia-old rivalry of the Order of Assassins and Knights Templar throughout different time periods and settings. The first installment in the series released in 2007 from Ubisoft and was set during the Third Crusade in 1191. The games typically feature a person in modern times reliving the memories of their ancestors, in this case an assassin named Altair Ibn-La’Ahad, who is on a mission to assassinate several figures among the Knights Templar to regain his honor in the Order. Other installments in the franchise explored the Italian Renaissance, Colonial America, the Golden Age of Piracy, Victorian England, the Peloponnesian War, Ancient Egypt, and more.

Assassin’s Creed is set to begin production in early 2026 in Italy.