Zachary Hart (Slow Horses) has been cast as a series regular in Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed. He joins previously cast leads Toby Wallace and Lola Petticrew in the live-action series based on Ubisoft’s best-selling video game franchise.
Assassin’s Creed is a high-octane thriller centered on the secret war between two shadowy factions — one set on determining mankind’s future through control and manipulation, while the other fights to preserve free will. The series follows its characters across pivotal historical events as they battle to shape humanity’s destiny.
Details about Hart’s role are being kept under wraps. The series is expected to start production in 2026 in Italy, which, as Deadline has reported, serves as a setting of the series, with the exact time period unclear.
Roberto Patino and David Wiener serve as showrunners on Assassin’s Creed,which stems from a deal Netflix signed with Ubisoft in 2020. They executive produce with Gerard Guillemot, Margaret Boykin, Austin Dill, Genevieve Jones for Ubisoft Film & Television, and Matt O’Toole.
With more than 230 million units sold, the Assassin’s Creed franchise is one of the best-selling series in video game history.
Hart is a British actor-musician who most recently starred as Reg in the West End production of the Tony-winning Stereophonic. Earlier this year, he played Medvedenko in The Seagull at the Barbican Theatre.
On TV, Hart has guest starred on such series as Apple TV’s Slow Horses andMasters of the Air, Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood Origin and Bodies, BBC’s Peaky Blinders and ITV’s Doc Martin. He is currently filming Season 2 of Netflix’s spy action thriller Black Doves and can next be seen in Hugo Blick’s California Avenue for the BBC, alongside Bill Nighy and Helena Bonham-Carter, and Channel 4’s Big Mood, opposite Nicola Coughlan.
Hart, who recently debuted his short film Chimera at the BFI London Film Festival, is repped by Insight Management & Production.
From Deadline.com