{"id":9687,"date":"2016-11-17T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=9687"},"modified":"2016-12-20T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T06:45:19","slug":"game-changing-cinematic-event-assasins-creed-opens-in-phil-cinemas-january-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/game-changing-cinematic-event-assasins-creed-opens-in-phil-cinemas-january-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Game-changing Cinematic Event “Assasin’s Creed” opens in Phil. cinemas January 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: Assassin’s Creed will now open on January 4th 2017 and not on the 8th as previously reported.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Prepare for an exhilarating ride at the movies when the game-to-movie \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d opens in Phil. cinemas on January 8\u00a0starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons and Brendan Gleeson.<\/p>\n

A game-changing cinematic event, \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d is directed by visionary filmmaker Justin Kurzel from Ubisoft\u2019s worldwide hit franchise of the same title. Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain.\u00a0 Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, and amasses incredible knowledge and skills to take on the oppressive and powerful Templar organization in the present day.<\/p>\n

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Since development began on the first \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d game, inspired by the life of Hassan-i Sabbah, a missionary who lived in 11th Century Persia, and whose followers became known as \u201cHashshashin\u201d, or Assassins – the franchise has always been at the top of Ubisoft\u2019s priority list, and since its release in 2007, there have been more than 20 games within the \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d canon, as well as comics, novels, and books.<\/p>\n

Now, on January 8, 2017, Philippine audiences will finally get the chance to see \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d (from 20th<\/sup> Century Fox) brought to life in a new film that features plenty of moments and nods that fans of the games will pick up on.<\/p>\n

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For director Justin Kurzel, transforming the world of the hit video game series \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d into a live action feature film meant putting as much effort into realizing the action of the games in real life as possible. \u201cI could have shot it all in a parking lot and made it very CGI-heavy,\u201d he admits, \u201cbut I thought what was really interesting was to see how we could make the audience feel as though it were possible; that these Assassins in real life could jump between buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early on in the project he took a meeting with the stunt coordinator, Ben Cooke, to determine how much could be realized. It was Cooke who suggested bringing on Damien Walters, one of the world\u2019s leading freerunners, to choreograph these sequences with the principal actors and the stunt team. \u00a0\u00a0When they started talking about the Leap of Faith \u2013 an iconic \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d stunt series staple, in which an Assassin flings himself off a ledge, turns in mid-air and lands on his back in water or on a bale of hay \u2013 Walters revealed that he\u2019d been planning to attempt his own, just for fun. 20ft was the height mooted by the production to attempt the leap. Walters suggested going for 120ft.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s so amazing about this stuff is that you can do it,\u201d says Kurzel. \u201cYou\u2019re looking at an Assassin jumping off a building and going, \u2018Is that possible?\u2019 Well, we did it. I think that\u2019s very important, especially if the film\u2019s going to have some sense of its own identity. We\u2019ve paid our dues to figure out how you jump from building to building, and leap and climb. What is a Leap of Faith that feels real and tangible and visceral?\u201d<\/p>\n

Cook notes that it was worth the effort. \u201cIt\u2019s such an iconic part of the game that I don\u2019t think it should be ruined with visual effects. We actually went back to the old school of stunts and doing that kind of thing for real. If you get these stunts wrong, you\u2019re going down, but for a stunt performer, if you\u2019re not getting scared, it\u2019s meaningless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Agrees Michael Fassbender, who plays the dual roles of Callum Lynch and Aguilar de Nehra in the movie: \u201cWe did it old-school, on location, on camera. Damien doing that jump \u2013 it was so frightening. He was nervous, but I think it was very special that he did his biggest jump on our movie. I got nervous just watching him; I felt a little sick every time he was up there. I just wanted him down safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: Assassin’s Creed will now open on January 4th 2017 and not on the 8th as previously reported. Prepare for an exhilarating ride at the movies when the game-to-movie \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d opens in Phil. cinemas on January 8\u00a0starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons and Brendan Gleeson. A game-changing cinematic event, \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d is directed by visionary filmmaker Justin Kurzel from Ubisoft\u2019s worldwide hit franchise of the same title. Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain.\u00a0 Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, and amasses incredible knowledge and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[691,906,905,890,444,704,131,119,907],"class_list":["post-9687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-691","tag-action","tag-assasins-creed","tag-cinemas","tag-film","tag-game","tag-movie","tag-philippines","tag-theater"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/ASSASSINS-CREED_.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687","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=9687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11074,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions\/11074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}