The long-gestating movie adaptation of Assassin’s Creed rolls before cameras very soon, and we spoke to the film’s director about why he wants to adapt the long-running video game series.

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While chatting with Justin Kurzel about his acclaimed version of Macbeth – which hits UK screens on October 2 – we asked him why he thinks Ubisoft's historical action-adventure will make a good movie.“Because I think there’s so much underneath it,” he explained. “I don’t think it’s your typical shoot-em-up game. I don’t think it’s your typical one-dimensional game. It has a heart and a history to it.“The whole idea of memories and the whole idea of we are made up of who comes before us and within us we carry the DNA of our ancestors and we have access to those ancestors and they somehow speak to who we are now – that is just an incredibly strong, human kind of curious thing, so I think that there is something there that’s really original and really fresh and it’s no wonder it has 90 million players. There’s got to be something more than just the fun of playing it. There’s definitely a culture to it that people really respond to.”Principle photography is set to commence “in the next six or seven weeks” with Macbeth stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard joining Kurzel on the project, so check out the trailer below to get an idea of what to expect.Macbeth hits UK screens on October 2, while Assassin’s Creed will be released December 2016.

Chris Tilly is the Entertainment Editor for IGN in the UK and can't wait to see what Kurzel does with this material. He can be found talking nonsense on both Twitter and MyIGN