Assassin’s Creed is coming to Netflix, and it’s just sent another actor into the Animus. Lola Petticrew (Say Nothing) is set to join the new live-action video game series, which is in development at the streamer. According to reports, the series is set to begin production in Italy next year, but no release date has yet been announced.

Who Is Lola Petticrew?

Irish actor Petticrew (who is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns) made their screen debut in the dramedy A Bump Along the Way, in which they played a teenager coping with her mother’s unexpected pregnancy. They subsequently starred in the features Shadows, Wolf, and She Said, and the TV series Anne Boleyn, where they played Jane Seymour, before they broke out internationally playing Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘ terminally ill daughter in Tuesday. Recently, they starred in two notable miniseries about The Troubles in Northern Ireland; 2024’s Say Nothing and this year’s Trespasses. Next, they’re set to star in I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, an adaptation of Keiran Goddard‘s novel of the same name.

The upcoming Netflix series won’t be the first adaptation of Assassin’s Creed. The franchise hit the big screen in 2016; directed by Justin Kurzel (The Order), the film starred Michael Fassbender as Callum Lynch, the scion of an Assassin bloodline and a convicted murderer. The Templars, headed by Alan Rikkin (Jeremy Irons) and his daughter, scientist Sofia Rikkin (Marion Cotillard), send his mind back to 1492, where he’s to seek out the Apple of Eden, a long-lost artifact that could change the course of history. The film was not successful with critics or audiences, scuppering a planned cinematic franchise.

Assassin’s Creed is set to begin production next year in Italy; no release date has yet been announced.

via Collider