According to Coming Soon, the Assassin’s Creed film adaptation is set to hit theaters on May 22, 2015. That just happens to be Memorial Day weekend, which is what many people expect to be the release date for Star Wars: Episode VII. Wow, what a weekend that would be if that was the case.

Michael Fassbender has been set to play the lead role with Michael Lesslie writing the script. 20th Century Fox and New Regency will be financing and distribuiting the film. No other cast has been named and no director has been announced either.

I haven’t played the game a ton myself, but I have seen other people play it and I do think it’ll make a great transition to the big screen if done right. Especially now that Fassbender is attached to the project, this film could be really good. The big thing will be getting the right director and producers to put this together well. Video games haven’t had the biggest success on the big screen as Nate and I discussed on Episode 11 of our InSession Film Podcast, so getting the right people in there will be crucial.

Who would you like to see direct the new Assassin’s Creed film?

Could it be true? Could the great Christopher Nolan really be directing the next Bond film?

According to UK’s The Daily Mail, that could very well be a possibility as they are reporting that the director of The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception has been approached by the Bond producers. Nolan and his representatives have talked with the Bond producers but everything is still in the early stages and nothing is confirmed.

Nolan is the perfect choice to direct the next Bond film – or any other film for that matter. He would do the franchise justice and I believe he would love the opportunity to one-up Sam Mendes’ Skyfall, which many consider the best Bond film to date.

Nolan is currently gearing up for Interstellar, his film about wormholes starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Michael Caine.

We’re not done with Ron Burgundy and his news team yet.

A new trailer was recently released for Anchorman: The Legend Continues, the sequel to 2004’s Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. And while it doesn’t give us much insight into the plot, it does gives us some funny moments with Burgundy (Will Ferrell), Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd), Brick (Steve Carrell) and Champ Kind (David Koechner).

I’m not a huge comedy film fan but I did enjoy the first Anchorman – mostly because of the four characters mentioned above, especially Brick. So I am looking forward to the sequel even though most sequels in the comedy genre are pretty terrible.

Anchorman: The Legend Continues hits theaters on December 20.

According to Deadline, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer were in Cannes to introduce a few of their upcoming projects and announced they are planning to use crowdfunding to raise money for a movie version of the TV series, Friday Night Lights. Well you may be thinking, “umm…there’s already a Friday Night Lights movie and it’s pretty good,” and I would agree with you. However, the TV show is pretty popular and it most likely will not be a remake, but rather a continuation of the TV series.

According to Grazer, “We made a terrific feature with Pete Berg, turned it into a terrific TV series and will now make a movie from that series. I’m not sure such a thing has been done before.”

Crowdfunding and Kickstarter campaigns have really ramped up since Veronica Mars pioneered the idea for big films. Zach Braff also started a Kickstarter campaign for his second feature film, Wish I Was Here, which also did really well and created some controversy at the same time. At this rate, this could become an extremely popular trend but it could see some costly consequences, most notably to the fans. I understand it’s easier for directors and producers to get funding for the film, but I’m not convinced this is the best direction going forward. While, the TV series is good, I don’t see a reason to make this film.

Howard and Grazer have a new film coming out in September called Rush, which stars Chris Hemsworth.

You know that little video game where you shoot the birds and try to blow up the pigs? That little video game with no dialogue or plot? That little video game where you do the same thing for 100 different levels? Yeah, they’re turning that into a feature-length film.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony has secured to rights to make a 3D animated film about Angry Birds, the time-wasting video game that has been downloaded over 1.7 billion times. It will hit theaters on July 1, 2016.

John Cohen, producer of Despicable Me, and David Maisel, executive producer of Iron Man, have both signed on to produce.

Like a billion other people, I have wasted many minutes of my life playing Angry Birds. It’s a great little video game. But I don’t want to see it turned into a full-length film. It’s not the craziest thing Hollywood has ever done but it has to be up there.

The new poster for Riddick is, well, dark.

Riddick is a sequel to Pitch Black, the 2000 film starring Vin Diesel about a group of marooned space travelers who get stuck on a very dark planet. Like that film, Riddick is directed by David Twohy and stars Diesel.

Riddick opens on September 6.

Earlier this month it was confirmed that Tom Cruise is coming back for Mission: Impossible 5. Now, that film has a writer.

According to Deadline, Drew Pearce will be writing the script for the fifth installment in the franchise. No director has yet to be found. Pearce recently co-wrote the very successful Iron Man 3 and also co-write Pacific Rim, which comes out later this summer. Those are his only film writing credits.

Pearce has a lot to live up to as the last two Mission: Impossibles (Mission: Impossible III and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) really raised the bar of the franchise as both were very good films. The script for Iron Man 3 was very solid but I wonder if that was because of him or director Shane Black, who helped write it. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.

Time to go crazy: A new poster has arrived for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

And I have to say, I didn’t care much for the trailer but this poster is very sharp. I love the colors and I love the artsy nature and simplicity of it with Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss standing about the world with her mockingjay image in the clouds. A very well-done poster and not the generic photoshopped crap we usually get.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire comes out on November 22.

The cast for Draft Day just keeps growing.

According to Deadline, the latest actor to join this football flick is none other than Sam Elliott. Elliott, best known for his amazingly awesome voice, will play a “college coach whose quarterback is the top NFL draft pick.”

Elliott joins the cast one day after Tom Welling signed on. They will be joined by Kevin Costner, Denis Leary, Jennifer Garner, Chadwick Boseman and Frank Langella in an Ivan Reitman-directed film about the Cleveland Browns general manager who tries to garner the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft to help his team.

Well if you’re a Marvel fan, you may be able to breathe a little bit easier. We’ve discussed on a couple of occasions that Robert Downey Jr. may be done with Iron Man, but that may not be the case.

Mark Ruffalo has come out to reassure fans that he hasn’t heard of any recasting plans, which hopefully means that Downey Jr. will be back. He also says he has every intention of reprising his role as Dr. Bruce Banner.

“I haven’t caught wind of any of that,” says Ruffalo of the recasting rumours. “I was surprised to hear it, because I don’t even think anyone’s really started negotiating yet.”

“I’d be really sad if they did,” continues Ruffalo. “I can’t imagine that. That would be bad. ‘That would not be good,’ as Joss Whedon would say… I’d love to come back as The Hulk. I don’t foresee not coming back as The Hulk.”

Ruffalo also discussed some other Phase 2 appearances he may or may not be in. If you aren’t up to date or haven’t seen Iron Man 3, this may be a spoiler.

However Ruffalo’s appearance in Iron Man 3, was a little surprise, yet pretty entertaining. Here’s a little of what he had to say about it.

“We were doing the Academy Awards and Robert [Downey Jr.] said, ‘Hey, what do you think about coming and doing a cameo in Iron Man?’” says Ruffalo. “So he pitched the idea of the theme and I said, ‘I would love to do that.’

“So, ten days later, I’m on a plane to L.A. and we’re shooting that scene. It was a lot of fun. It was written, but we improvised a little bit and Shane [Black] gave us some adjustments. I haven’t seen it yet, though. Robert thought it would be a good cap to all of the rest of the Iron Man story.”

It’s always a little fun to hear how things come together and hopefully Ruffalo is right about the recasting. It wouldn’t be the same without any of them.