Assassin’s Creed movie has started filming in Malta

The Malta Film Commission confirmed to Malta Today (hat tip to SR reader “Etienne”) that Assassin’s Creed began shooting in Malta over this past week. Malta has served as a shooting location for such historical action/adventures and dramas as Gladiator, The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), and Troy over the past fifteen years, in addition to having been used in such recent globe-trotting thrillers as World War Z and Captain Phillips. For Assassin’s Creed, Malta is “playing” 15th century Spain, for a storyline not based on any previously-released Assassin’s Creed video game narratives.