What is the title of the 2016 Assassin's Creed film starring Michael Fassbender as Callum Lynch?

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

Directed by Justin Kurzel, Assassin's Creed was released in December 2016. Fassbender plays Callum Lynch, a modern man who uses an Animus-derived machine to experience the memories of his ancestor Aguilar de Nerha, an Assassin active during the Spanish Inquisition.

The film introduces an original modern protagonist and an original historical Assassin rather than directly adapting one of the games' main campaigns. Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, and Michael K. Williams also appear in the cast. The movie combines a contemporary Abstergo storyline with historical sequences set in fifteenth-century Spain.

It is distinct from the many game titles sharing the franchise name. The film's Aguilar storyline is not the same as Ezio Auditore's Renaissance Italian trilogy or Altaïr's Third Crusade adventure.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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