What is the name of the Assassin's Creed film released in 2016 starring Michael Fassbender?

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The 2016 film starring Michael Fassbender is titled Assassin's Creed.

Assassin's Creed is a 2016 science-fiction action film directed by Justin Kurzel and produced by New Regency and Ubisoft Motion Pictures. Michael Fassbender plays Callum Lynch in the present day and Aguilar de Nerha in fifteenth-century Spain. The film uses the franchise's central idea that modern people can experience ancestral memories through advanced technology.

Its historical storyline takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and follows Aguilar, an Assassin connected to the Brotherhood. The modern plot involves Abstergo Industries and its attempt to use ancestral memories to locate the Apple of Eden. These elements adapt recognizable game mythology while introducing a new protagonist and story rather than directly retelling one game's campaign.

The film was released in December 2016. It also stars Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Michael K. Williams, and Brendan Gleeson. Assassin's Creed: Lineage is a separate live-action short-film series connected to Assassin's Creed II, so it is not the title of Fassbender's feature film.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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