VIDEO : Michael Fassbender Says 'Assassin's Creed' Is Like 'The Matrix'

Audiences might think they know what to expect from the movie version of Assassin's Creed, the adaptation of the popular video game franchise centering around the centuries-long struggle between forces called the Assassins and the Templars. "I?ve always thought about The Matrix when we?ve approached this,? Fessbender told Empire, pointing to the franchise's notion that descendants of the Assassins can access "ancestral memory" to give them skills and knowledge they otherwise wouldn't possess. "This idea of DNA memory elevates it from a basic fantasy genre [piece], because you have something an audience can actually believe in.