Assassin's Creed: What did we learn from the trailer?

Fassbender is in swashbuckling time-travelling form in first teaser for the video game turned film

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Ariane Labed and Michael Fassbender in Assassin's Creed

The new trailer for the Assassin's Creed film has landed, giving audiences a first look at Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard and director Justin Kurzel's first film together since last year's adaptation of Macbeth.[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"content_original","fid":"94790","attributes":{"class":"media-image"}}]]

Fassbender plays Death Row inmate Callum Lynch, who hooks himself up to a machine called the Animus to unlock his genetic memory and experience the memories of his ancestor, the assassin Aguilar de Nerha.

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