‘Assassin’s Creed’ Film Updates: New Photographs Feature Michael Fassbender as Spanish Mercenary Aguilar, Modern-Day Callum Lynch

‘Assassin’s Creed’ released new photographs featuring a closer look at Michael Fassbender’s Aguilar as well as his Callum Lynch.

According to /Film, 20th Century Fox recently released a brand new set of photographs featuring Fassbender in dual roles as the Spanish Inquisition assassin Aguilar as well as his modern-day descendant Callum Lynch.

In one of the photographs, Fassbender’s Aguilar is seen on horseback against a backdrop of what looks to be a desolate back-country landscape. The images offer a closer look at his 15th century costume as well as his chosen weapons such as a dagger and a bow and arrow.

Another photograph showed Fassbender’s Callum strapped to a contraption suspended above a pool of water. This may be one of the experiments forcing to extract him of “genetic memories” of his ancestor Aguilar.

During a previous interview, the 39-year old Irish-German actor revealed that film hoped to find the balance between being faithful to the original Ubisoft video game franchise as well as fresh dramatic material for moviegoers.

According to Collider, Fassbender said, “You know, it’s all part of the same universe. We really want to respect the game and the elements to it, but we also wanted to come up with our own thing. And one thing I’ve sort of learned from doing the franchises like X-Men is that audiences, I think, want to be surprised and to see new elements of what they already know, and different takes on it. Like I said, we’re really respecting the very core elements of the game, but we wanted to bring something new to it as well, so that’s why we have these new central characters.”

When asked about the difference between the two characters he was playing, he replied, “You know, basically in this story, you have somebody who doesn’t realize where he’s coming from. He doesn’t have a lineage he can sort of feel a belonging to. That’s our modern-day protagonist, Cal. He doesn’t realize he’s an Assassin; he’s a bit of a lost soul. He’s always been drifting in and out of correctional facilities.”

He continued, “Then, of course, Aguilar is very much somebody that belongs to the Creed. He has a cause, he’s sort of been following that cause. He belongs to it. So they’re the two different standpoints of the character, and hopefully Aguilar will teach Cal, from the regressions, that he does belong to something. That’s the main difference between the two characters.”

‘Assassin’s Creed’ is an upcoming action-adventure and fantasy film directed by Justin Kurzel and written by Bill Collage, Adam Cooper, and Michael Lesslie. It stars Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, and Ariane Labed. The film is scheduled to premiere in theaters on December 21, 2016.

It is produced by Ubisoft Entertainment, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, New Regency Pictures, Regency Enterprises, DMC Film, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, and Monarchy Enterprises S.a.r.l.