Netflix‘ upcoming live-action “Murderer’s Creed” collection — which has already been constructing out its major forged, with Toby Wallace (“Euphoria”), Lola Petticrew (“Say Nothing”) just lately unveiled as leads and Zachary Hart (“Gradual Horses”) and Laura Marcus (“Dying by Lightning”) as regulars — has now discovered its director.
Johan Renck, the Swedish filmmaker finest recognized for guiding HBO’s hit mini-series “Chernobyl,” for which he gained an Emmy, is about to helm the present, Selection can reveal.
Primarily based on the phenomenally profitable time-travelling online game franchise, “Murderer’s Creed” was first introduced in July as the primary collection to be developed below Netflix’s settlement with Ubisoft, signed in 2020.
Plot particulars are being saved below wraps for now, however the logline says the collection might be “centered on the key conflict between two shadowy factions — one set on figuring out mankind’s future by means of management and manipulation, whereas the opposite fights to protect free will. The collection follows its characters throughout pivotal historic occasions as they battle to form humanity’s future.”
Roberto Patino and David Wiener function creators, showrunners, and government producers. Gerard Guillemot, Margaret Boykin, Austin Dill, and Genevieve Jones of Ubisoft Movie & Tv function government producers, as does Matt O’Toole.
The primary “Murderer’s Creed” sport — exploring the centuries lengthy conflict between the rival secret orders of the Assassins and the Templar — debuted in 2007 and have become an instantaneous hit. Since then, 13 additional installments within the franchise have been launched, the newest being “Murderer’s Creed: Shadows,” launched in 2025, with greater than 230 million copies total offered to this point. A movie adaptation starring Michael Fassbender was launched in 2016.
Alongside “Chernobyl,” Renck’s TV credit embody directing the collection “The Final Panther,” plus episodes of “Breaking Dangerous,” “The Strolling Useless,” “Vikings,” “Bates Motel” and “Halt and Catch Hearth.” He has collaborated with Netflix beforehand, having directed the primary two episodes of its 2015 collection “Bloodline” and final 12 months’s sci-fi characteristic “Spaceman,” starring Adam Sandler and based mostly on the novel “Spaceman of Bohemia.”
Talking to Selection final 12 months forward of the Berlinale world premiere of “Spaceman,” Renck stated that after the success of 2019’s “Chernobyl,” which was a essential and business smash and gained quite a few Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA TV awards, he was “decided to stop” and as an alternative wished to open “actually fucking cool restaurant” in Brooklyn.
