PARIS, June 26 — French actress Ariane Labed is joining “Macbeth” alumni Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, and Justin Kurzel for a film adaptation of the “Assassin’s Creed” video game.
Labed won the Venice Film Festival’s Best Actress award for her lead role in coming-of-age drama “Attenberg” (2010), the Locarno International Film Festival’s equivalent for the same in “Fidelio, Alice’s Odyssey” (2014), and appeared in Cannes Jury Prize winner “The Lobster” (2015).
She accepts the “Assassin’s Creed” part after Alicia Vikander dropped out of consideration after taking a role in the next “Bourne” movie instead, SlashFilm reports.
Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the film production arm of a worldwide video game publisher and developer, had in 2012 sought to fast-track “Assassin’s Creed,” it looks like a slow simmer behind the scenes has proven more potent; the most recent release date projection was for December 21, 2016, with filming to start in September 2015. — AFP/Relaxnews
