Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson join 'Assassin's Creed'

Veteran actors Jeremy Irons and Brendan Gleeson are set to star in "Assassin's Creed", the movie adaptation of the popular video game franchise about a deadly rivalry between two secret societies, through the ages.
Michael Fassbender is starring as Callum Lynch, who relives the adventures of a lethal ancestor in 15th-century Spain and faces threats in the present day, reported Entertainment Weekly.
Marion Cotillard co-stars, and Justin Kurzel is directing from a script by Bill Collage, Adam Cooper, and Michael Lesslie.
Irons will play Cotillard's father while Gleeson plays Fassbender's father.
The film is slated to release on December 21, 2016.