{"id":9923,"date":"2016-11-21T18:43:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T10:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=9923"},"modified":"2016-12-20T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T06:45:05","slug":"into-the-death-defying-world-of-assassins-creed-through-abstergo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/into-the-death-defying-world-of-assassins-creed-through-abstergo\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Death-defying World of “Assassin’s Creed” Through Abstergo"},"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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The highly anticipated death-defying and non-stop action adventure \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons and Brendan Gleeson will bring the audience to an unforgettable ride in two time periods in history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed,\u201d Michael Fassbender plays dual characters as Callum Lynch and Aguilar De Nehra.\u00a0 When Lynch is brought into the Abstergo facility, having been rescued from the lethal injection on death row, he doesn\u2019t know what to make of it. A foreboding, concrete structure with plenty of natural light, but no windows, it\u2019s kind of a cross between a high-tech day spa and a prison. His fellow inmates are a ragtag bunch of souls who seem to struggle with their own mental faculties. And at the facility\u2019s center, within the circular structure of an old church, lies the Animus, a device which will send Cal back in time to 15th Century Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Justin Kurzel\u2019s big screen adaptation of the hit video game series \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed,\u201d Abstergo plays an enormous character. \u201cIt\u2019s really the basis of the story,\u201d notes producer Frank Marshall. \u201cIt\u2019s where the main characters exist and work, and it houses the Animus. It\u2019s the world we create in contemporary times.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For production designer Andy Nicholson (\u201cGravity\u201d), getting the design of the Abstergo facility right was the biggest challenge he faced on the production. \u201cIn real time, more than half the script happens at Abstergo,\u201d he explains.<\/span><\/p>\n

The key Abstergo set was constructed on the enormous 007 Stage at London\u2019s Pinewood Studios, one of the biggest interior facilities in the world dedicated to film production. The entire complex is an uncomfortable clash between the present and the past, which reflects the strains Cal suffers when he is subjected to the regressions of his genetic memory.<\/span><\/p>\n

With production wrapped on the 007 Stage, much of the shoot focused on the Animus chamber set, built separately at a facility in Langley, Buckinghamshire. The Animus chamber itself is the epicenter, not just of the Abstergo site, but of the clash between two worlds. With red brick walls and a mosaic tile floor, the set also houses the highly-technical Animus machine itself, while a glass-fronted observation room pokes through the upper wall with little grace or elegance.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Animus has always played a key part in the \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d games, but it has never before been visualised like this. In the series, it is typically a chair or a bed on which subjects lie while they experience their regressions. In the film, with so much of the action cutting back to the modern period while Cal regresses into his 15th Century ancestor, Aguilar, the opportunity to imagine something grander presented itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cal is attached to this robotic arm by his spine, which doesn\u2019t just place him inside the regression, but moves his body physically in the way Aguilar moves within the simulation. Observers at Abstergo can then watch Cal move, and see what he sees with the help of holographic projections of Aguilar\u2019s world.\u00a0 \u201cThe arm is a dancing partner for Cal, and it is reading his genetic memories. It interprets them to play the movement back so it can be experienced more strongly,\u201d explains Nicholson. \u201cThe way we\u2019re shooting it, if he\u2019s fighting someone you\u2019ll see the impact from that fight in the room for real. The chance to do that is really unusual. It simply hasn\u2019t been done before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d opens January 8 in cinemas nationwide from 20th<\/sup> Century Fox.\u00a0 Follow 20th<\/sup> Century Fox (Philippines) Facebook page, 20thcenturyfoxph on YouTube and Instagram and @20centuryfoxph on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The highly anticipated death-defying and non-stop action adventure \u201cAssassin\u2019s Creed\u201d starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons and Brendan Gleeson will bring the audience to an unforgettable ride in two time periods in history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/michael-fassbender-in-ASSASSINS-CREED-e1479724989695.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923","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=9923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11072,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions\/11072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}