Ubisoft is moving into the movie industry by creating its own studio that it hopes will turn some of its most prestigious franchises into big hits on the silver screen.
Variety reports that the new movie studio will be called Ubisoft Motion Pictures and will be headed by Jean-Julien Baronnet of EuropaCorp, the French film studio behind the Transporter movies. Though Ubisoft has yet to reveal firm plans for its studio, it seems likely that movie remakes of flagship franchises, Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon will be top of the agenda. This also ties in with a survey that Ubisoft sent out last month to a cross-section of gamers, asking their thoughts on an Assassin’s Creed and Ghost Recon movie.
Ubisoft is no stranger to the film industry. In 2010, Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time hit the box office and netted over $335 million across the globe. With the French studio solely in charge of production on any future titles, the potential is there to make some stunning recreations of its best-loved IPs. Assassin’s Creed in particular could be awesome.