{"id":11307,"date":"2016-12-26T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T02:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=11307"},"modified":"2016-12-23T18:01:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T10:01:01","slug":"marion-cotillard-in-gravity-defying-action-adventure-assassins-creed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/12\/26\/marion-cotillard-in-gravity-defying-action-adventure-assassins-creed\/","title":{"rendered":"Marion Cotillard in gravity-defying action adventure ASSASSIN\u2019S CREED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Academy Award winning actress Marion Cotillard (\u201cLa Vie En Rose\u201d) reunites with acclaimed actor Michael Fassbender (\u201cX-Men\u201d movies) and director Justin Kurzel (\u201cMacbeth\u201d) in the most anticipated thrilling live-action adaptation of the Ubisoft video game \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d that tells the story of an ancient war between two rival sects: Assassins and Templars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11308\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/marion-cotillard-in-ASSASSINS-CREED.jpg\" alt=\"marion-cotillard-in-assassins-creed\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cotillard plays Sofia Rikken in \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed,\u201d a scientist at the Abstergo facility who saves Fassbender\u2019s Callum Lynch from a lethal injection on death row and introduces him to the concept of genetic regressions. Her motives are pure enough \u2013 a drive to eradicate violence from the human genome \u2013 but her methods, and the motives of the shadowy Abstergo organization are far from clear. \u00a0A well-meaning scientist at the Abstergo facility and the daughter of Alan Rikken (played by Academy Award\u00ae winner Jeremy Irons) who is a Templar through and through, and is using his daughter\u2019s grasp of complex science to manipulate her motives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11309\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/michael-fassbender-in-ASSASSINS-CREED-.jpg\" alt=\"michael-fassbender-in-assassins-creed\" width=\"850\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/michael-fassbender-in-ASSASSINS-CREED-.jpg 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/michael-fassbender-in-ASSASSINS-CREED--300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/michael-fassbender-in-ASSASSINS-CREED--768x490.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fassbender responded immediately to the central \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d notion, that through technology we can tap the genetic memories of our ancestors and relive their experiences across history. \u201cThe idea that we hold in us the experiences, mistakes and memories of our ancestors was really fascinating,\u201d notes Fassbender. \u201cI thought it was a really cool scientific theory that seemed very plausible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ASSASSIN&#039;S CREED | Official Trailer 2 | In Cinemas January 8\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Og_7Pp-V66E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Reuniting the team that had been responsible for such a critical success was immediately appealing to Cotillard. \u201cI had such an amazing experience with Justin and Michael on Macbeth,\u201d she notes. \u201cEven before I read it I wanted to work with them again. And I really loved this character. I wanted to make Sofia live, and my focus was to create who she would be on screen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The movie\u2019s production was assisted by a team at Ubisoft who specialise in researching the history that comes through the games. The events are real. The only embellishment is the notion of two groups that operate in the shadows \u2013 the Assassins and their bitter rivals, the Templars, under which Sofia belongs \u2013 who orchestrate events that will change the balance of power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s this kind of ambiguity to the moral compasses of being an Assassin and being a Templar,\u201d says Kurzel. \u201cThe Templars believe in benign control, whereas the Assassins are obviously all about free will. These are two opposing extremes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotillard agrees with the director while explaining her character, \u201cYeah, he (Cal) has his way and his ideology to eradicate violence, which goes too far. She has another vision of it. We all want the same thing, but we don\u2019t have the same books, and we don\u2019t have the same vision. I think it\u2019s really bold and amazing because it\u2019s going to be an actual subject for a long time. What it says is really interesting \u2013 the different visions. There are no good people and bad people; it\u2019s all just different visions for the same goal, which creates war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d opens January 4 in cinemas nationwide from 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century Fox.\u00a0 Follow 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century Fox (Philippines) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/20thcenturyfoxphilippines\/\">Facebook page<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/20thcenturyfoxph\">20thcenturyfoxph<\/a> on YouTube, @20centuryfoxph on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/20centuryfoxph\">Twitter<\/a> and @20thcenturyfoxph on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/20thcenturyfoxph\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a press release.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academy Award winning actress Marion Cotillard (\u201cLa Vie En Rose\u201d) reunites with acclaimed actor Michael Fassbender (\u201cX-Men\u201d movies) and director Justin Kurzel (\u201cMacbeth\u201d) in the most anticipated thrilling live-action adaptation of the Ubisoft video game \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[1647,1648,1644,1645,1646],"class_list":["post-11307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-abstergo","tag-assassins-creed","tag-marion-cotillard","tag-sofia-rikken","tag-templars"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/marion-cotillard-in-ASSASSINS-CREED-e1482487171313.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11310,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions\/11310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}