History Trivia / AssassinsCreed2016

** The 1491-1492 scenes in Granada and Seville were filmed in Valletta, UsefulNotes/{{Malta}}. Only the aerial shots of the Giralda tower in Seville and the Alhambra in Granada were taken in the real cities.

** Creator/AliciaVikander was cast as María, but she had to drop out due to her committments with ''Film/JasonBourne'' and was replaced by Ariane Labed. She later married Fassbender.

** Matías Valera, Swedish of Spanish descent, plays his character's Middle-Eastern ancestor, assassin Yusuf Tazim, in a deleted scene.

** Creator/AliciaVikander was cast as María, but she had to drop out due to her committments with ''Film/JasonBourne'' and was replaced by Ariane Labed.

** Maltese Thomas Camilleri and Ukrainian Marysia S. Peres play Spaniards King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella respectively.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Like the other major video game movie release of 2016, ''Film/WarCraft'', the film didn't fare well in the [=US=], having a $125 million budget and grossing about $54 million (releasing the week after ''Film/RogueOne'' probably did most of the damage). It fared much better internationally, with global gross reaching $240 million.

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* ApprovalOfGod: The leading creatives of the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' franchise at Creator/UbiSoft loved the film's production design and said that they would try to incorporate the film's version of the Animus into future games of the franchise (though three games have been released since, ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins Origins]]'', ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey Odyssey]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla Valhalla]]'', and none of them features that Animus design).
** ''Valhalla'' did incorporate the design into [[spoiler:the Valhalla machine]], though.

* CreatorCouple: Creator/EssieDavis, who portray's Callum's mother, is married to the film's director Justin Kurzel.

** Matías Valera, Swedish of Spanish ascendence, plays his character's Middle-Eastern ancestor, assassin Yusuf Tazim, in a deleted scene.

* DoingItForTheArt:
** The props department went through the trouble of creating working Hidden Blades that could extend and retract on camera because they felt that it was important to be as true to the mythos and setting as possible rather than simply relying on computer animation to get the desired effect.
** There's the fact that all the sequences set in Spain are spoken entirely in Spanish (albeit mostly modern Spanish, not the ancient variation spoken at the time).
** The Leap of Faith, rather than being done with CGI, was done for real by Michael Fassbender's stunt double Damien Walters, specifically to avoid SpecialEffectFailure. At 125 feet, it's one of the longest freefalls ever done by a stuntman.

* ApprovalOfGod: The leading creatives of ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' at Creator/UbiSoft loved the film's production design and said that they would try to incorporate the film's version of the Animus into future games of the franchise (though three games have been released since, ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins Origins]]'', ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey Odyssey]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla Valhalla]]'', and none of them features that Animus design).

** The 1491-1492 scenes in Granada and Seville were filmed in Valletta, UsefulNotes/{{Malta}}. Only the aerial shots of the Giralda tower in Seville were taken in the real city.

** The indoor modern-day scenes at the Abstergo UsefulNotes/{{Madrid}} center were shot at Creator/PinewoodStudios in England, in the [[Film/JamesBond 007]] Soundstage most notably. The giant bunker-like building is fictional but was superimposed on an aerial view of the San Isidro ''barrio'' (ward) of Madrid's Carabanchel district.

** The indoor modern-day scenes at the Abstergo UsefulNotes/{{Madrid}} center were shot at Creator/PinewoodStudios in England, in the [[Film/JamesBond 007]] Soundstage most notably. The giant bunker-like building is fictional but was superimposed on an aerial view of the San Isidro ''barrio'' of Madrid's Carabanchel district.

** The indoor modern-day scenes at the Abstergo UsefulNotes/{{Madrid}} center were shot at Creator/PinewoodStudios in England, in the [[Film/JamesBond 007]] Soundstage most notably. The giant bunker-like building is fictional but was superimposed on an aerial view of the San Isidro ''barrio'' of the Carabanchel district.

** The Abstergo Madrid center scenes were shot at Creator/PinewoodStudios in England, in the [[Film/JamesBond 007]] Soundstage most notably.

* AllStarCast: Features Michael Fassbender, Creator/MarionCotillard, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/BrendanGleeson, Creator/EssieDavis and, for Spain, Creator/JavierGutierrez.

** At some point, Callum was going to be the sole survivor of the Abstergo revolt, but test audiences found the ending too dark, and it was changed to one in which five of the Assassins survived, including Nathan and Lara. After many other changes, this was trimmed down to just three, with Nathan being killed in the battle and Lara edited out of the film. (Also, a version of the ending had Callum seeing a ghostly image of his mother a last time.)
** In another filmed version of the third act, Joseph Lynch would steal Arno Dorian's Guillotine Gun from the Abstergo museum and use it to aid in the battle. After being taken down by Abstergo guards, he would give Cal his mother's necklace with his dying breath.

* ApprovalOfGod: The leading creatives of ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' at Creator/UbiSoft loved the film's production design and have said that they will try to incorporate the film's version of the Animus into future games of the franchise (though three games have been released since, ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins Origins]]'', ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey Odyssey]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla Valhalla]]'', and none of them features that Animus design).

* DeletedRole: Among the Assassin descendants in Abstergo headquarters there was originally a young girl named Lara (played by Octavia-Selena Alexandru) who inherited memories from Maria, implying the latter survived to the capture of Granada and left descendance in that version of the script. Her entire subplot was edited out very late in development, but her scenes are included in the home release of the movie.

** The first cut of the movie included a subplot in which Callum would meet a spunky teenaged descendant of Maria named Lara, which implies Maria survived to the battle against Torquemada in this version. Lara would be shown to have a mother-daughter relationship with Sophia, as well as somewhat of an oracular role by predicting events via paper fortune teller, and would be vaguely implied to be Callum's daughter or relative. She would ultimately betray Sophia to escape with Callum and the rest, even appearing in the final scene with the other three Assassins jumping down the roof. All those scenes were filmed, with Octavia-Selena Alexandru playing her, but they were ultimately cut from the final product because it was considered she complicated things too much.
** Callum was going to be the sole survivor of the Abstergo revolt, but test audiences found the ending too dark, and it was changed to one in which five of the Assassins survived, including Nathan and Lara. After many other changes, this was trimmed down to just three, with Nathan being killed in the battle and Lara edited out of the film. (Also, a version of the ending had Callum seeing a ghostly image of his mother a last time.)