Sony Pictures closes in on Assassin’s Creed film rights

Source: Variety

Sony Pictures is in final negotiations to adapt and distribute the bigscreen version of Assassin’s Creed, landing the film rights in a bidding war after Ubisoft started shopping the property around Hollywood the last several months.

Through a new division called Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the video game company wants to maintain more creative control over the development of its games for other platforms rather than broker traditional one-off licensing deals with studios, something that proved key during the bidding process with Sony.