According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Netflix live-action Assassin’s Creed series has finally been greenlit after almost five years in the making. Roberto Patino (Westworld, Sons of Anarchy) and David Wiener (Halo, The Killing) will serve as creators, showrunners and executive producers on the series.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix describes the logline of the series as follows: “Assassin’s Creed is a high-octane thriller centered on the secret war between two shadowy factions — one set on determining mankind’s future through control and manipulation, while the other fights to preserve free will. The series follows its characters across pivotal historical events as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny.”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Assassin’s Creed series will follows other gaming adaptations at Netflix, like Castlevania, Arcane, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and the upcoming Splinter Cell: Deathwatch.

“We’ve been fans of Assassin’s Creed since its release in 2007. Every day we work on this show, we come away excited and humbled by the possibilities that Assassin’s Creed opens to us,” Wiener and Patino said in a joint statement via The Hollywood Reporter. “Beneath the scope, the spectacle, the parkour and the thrills is a baseline for the most essential kind of human story — about people searching for purpose, struggling with questions of identity and destiny and faith. It is about power and violence and sex and greed and vengeance.

“But more than anything, this is a show about the value of human connection, across cultures, across time,” they continued via The Hollywood Reporter. “And it’s about what we stand to lose as a species, when those connections break. We’ve got an amazing team behind us with the folks at Ubisoft and our champions at Netflix, and we’re committed to creating something undeniable for fans all over the planet.”

Peter Friedlander (Value of a Man, Road to Perdition), Netflix’s vice president of scripted series, added via The Hollywood Reporter, “When we first announced our partnership with Ubisoft in 2020, we set out with an ambitious goal to bring the rich, expansive world of Assassin’s Creed to life in bold new ways. Now, after years of dedicated collaboration, it’s inspiring to see just how far that vision has come. Guided by the deft hands of Roberto Patino and David Wiener, the team has carefully crafted an epic adventure that both honors the legacy of the Assassin’s Creed franchise and invites longtime fans and newcomers alike to experience the thrill of the Brotherhood as never before.”

As per The Hollywood Reporter, Wiener and Patino are joined by Gerard Guillemot (The Division, Werewolves Within), Margaret Boykin (Mythic Quest, Side Quest), Austin Dill (Fading Gigolo, The Drop) for Ubisoft Film & Television, and Matt O’Toole (Safe, Last Man Standing) who will also serve as executive producers.