If you were planning to watch the upcoming Assassin's Creed movie, you better hope it's a good one, as it clocks in at almost two and a half hours, according to a listing at Empire Cinemas.
Admittedly the film isn't out until the end of December, so it may be that this is a placeholder time, but it's also quite possible that Assassin's Creed is a 2hour20minute movie. Even epic saga film, Warcraft, didn't run that long, coming in at 2hours3minutes with credits.
Of course these are entirely different properties and the AC film cost $40 million more than the Warcraft film - somehow - so it should be quite an extravagant affair. The question is, can it recoup those monstrous costs?
Video game movies don't have much of a history of doing well at the box office. Yes Warcraft was able to make its money back and then some in markets like China, where it did very well, but without that international support it would have been a flop. Videogame movies in general are rarely strong.
They run the gamut from passable films like Tomb Raider, to Alone in the Dark - one of the worst films ever made. When Mortal Kombat is one of the best reviewed representations of a video game, you know you're in trouble.
Arguably the Pokémon movies are some of the most successful videogame adaptations ever.
Will Assassin's Creed by an Alone in the Dark? Probably not, but will it turn a profit? We'll have to wait and see.
