Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell & Ghost Recon Primed for Theaters

Okay Gamers, are you ready to see your favorites get the big screen treatment? Well get ready, because here they come. Variety had the report, in an exclusive no less, that “Paris-based Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the film and TV production arm of the French game-publishing giant, is developing 3D features based on…Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon.

For those less familiar, we also got the skinny on what each film would be about.

Assassin’s Creed is described as an “epic action- adventure”. In one corner are Templars and in the other are Assassins. The two secret organizations “according to the game,” have influenced “most major historical events.” So, there’s a thread of history there not unlike National Treasure.

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell is compared to The Bourne Identity franchise. The “action drama” follows “an elite secret agent fighting world terrorism and struggling to protect his daughter.”

In Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, which is “set in the near future,” a covert, super secret, “elite team of soldiers,” grapple for “world peace with cutting-edge military technology.”

These games have already “sold 28 million, 22 million and 17 million units worldwide, respectively.”

Jean-Julien Baronnet, head of Ubisoft Motion Pictures, which was born in January, said, “We want to keep ownership, retain control over the film content, and we’re open to work with studios on the development of our projects, and eventually collaborate on the pre-casting, pre-budget and script.” The projects have already inspired “great interest from U.S. studios and screenwriters.”