Adi Shankar Named Showrunner for ASSASSIN'S CREED TV Series
Adi Shankar, the man who currently has been the showrunner for the forthcoming animated
Castlevania series for Netflix (which premieres later this week), has been named showrunner for the
Assassin’s Creed show.
Shankar announced on his Facebook page, “I'm happy to let you guys know that I've selected my next project. I played the first edition of Assassin's Creed the year I moved to Los Angeles to pursue my dream. At that moment I knew absolutely no one in the industry and could never have imagined that one day Ubisoft would ask me to take the world of Assassin's Creed and create an original anime story set in it as a series. If anyone tells you not to follow your passion in life they are wrong.”
Shankar has been working on a number of awesome projects over the past few years, including the short film
Dirty Laundry, featuring Thomas Jane once again playing the role of Frank Castle, aka The Punisher; as well as the unofficial (but still entertaining) mature-oriented
Power/Rangers film spin-off, which got a lot of attention from its fanbase.
Ubisoft has tried to bring
Assassin’s Creed to another medium before, releasing a film based on the series during the last holiday season under 20th Century Fox, starring the likes of Michael Fassbender and Jeremy Irons. Although it never really reached “blockbuster” status, it still managed to attain $240 million worldwide, which isn’t too shabby.
Adi Shankar Named As Showrunner Of New Assassin’s Creed Series