{"id":77421,"date":"2015-07-07T10:53:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T09:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=77421"},"modified":"2015-07-07T10:53:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T09:53:11","slug":"assassins-creed-movie-adds-a-wire-star-to-the-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/assassins-creed-movie-adds-a-wire-star-to-the-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed movie adds a Wire star to the cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_77422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77422\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Michael-K-Williams-at-Sun-013-616x370.jpg\" alt=\"Michael K Williams' happy little face\" width=\"616\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Michael-K-Williams-at-Sun-013-616x370.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Michael-K-Williams-at-Sun-013-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Michael-K-Williams-at-Sun-013-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Michael-K-Williams-at-Sun-013.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael K Williams&#8217; happy little face<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just off the back of Michael K Williams (<em><strong>The Wire<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Boardwalk Empire<\/strong><\/em>) being cast in the upcoming <em><strong>Ghostbusters<\/strong><\/em> reboot, <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/news\/michael-k-williams-ghostbusters-assassins-creed-1201534395\/\">Variety<\/a> reports that he will also be starring in New Regency&#8217;s <em><strong>Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/strong><\/em> movie.<\/p>\n<p>The video game&#8217;s big screen adaptation will star Michael Fassbender (<em><strong>X-Men: First Class<\/strong><\/em>) and Marion Cotillard (<em><strong>The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong><\/em>) and will be directed by Justin Kurzel, who previously directed the pair in <em><strong>Macbeth<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Details around Williams&#8217; role in the film are still being kept under wraps, but it is thought that it will be a co-starring one.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/em> will be in cinemas on 21 December 2016 in the US and 30 December 2016 in the UK. Get all the latest fantasy news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3685\/s\/scifinow-issue-108\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Kurzel&#8217;s Assassin&#8217;s Creed adds a Wire fan favourite to the cast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":77423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2632],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/imgres.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}