'Assassin’s Creed' Movie Trailer and New Clip Premiere

With just two weeks to go before its release, Fox today released the "final" trailer for video game movie "Assassin's Creed," based on the Ubisoft franchise, and also put out a new clip for it. The trailer might be the best, most intriguing one, while the clip shows off more of the interaction between star Michael Fassbender and Michael Kenneth Williams.

In the "Assassin's Creed" video games, the Animus technology that lets people travel into their DNA's genetic memories is housed in comfy chairs or beds. In the upcoming movie, using the Animus means getting a needle into the spinal cord.

Over the course of many "Assassin's Creed" games that have come out over the last nine years, using the Animus looked a lot like taking a nap. Lie down, close your eyes, and go on a time-travel killing spree in centuries past.

The "Assassin's Creed" trailers, therefore, have been very much focused on the action side of the equation, using the near future sequences as framing for a Spanish Inquisition set thrill ride.

This appears to be a very linear summary of the plot intended to bring the film, which is out in just a couple of weeks, to a more mainstream audience. In addition to the plot expansions, there is also added focus on some of the prestige cast, including supporting roles for Charlotte Rampling as the Templar leader and Brendan Gleeson as a blind Assassin advice figure.

This "Assassin's Creed" trailer also draws attention to the award plaudits of core stars Fassbender, Cotillard and Jeremy Irons.

In this month's film adaptation of the popular video game "Assassin's Creed," Michael Fassbender plays the main character Callum Lynch-the Animus is a giant robot arm that apparently flings subjects around, and that's after some kind of painful-looking neurological implant gets jabbed between a man's vertebrae.