Veteran moviemaker Frank Marshall is in negotiations to board as a producer Assassin's Creed, New Regency and Ubisoft Motion Pictures' big-screen take on the popular Ubisoft video game that has Michael Fassbender attached to star.

The talks are happening just as Basil Iwanyk closed his deal to act as a producer on another Regency-Ubisoft partnership, the adaptation of Ubisoft's Splinter Cell.

Mike Lesslie has written the script, and Ubisoft's Eli Richbourg, Fassbender and his partner Connor McCaughan are producing.

Michael Lesslie, the writer of Prince of Denmark, will write the movie's script. But other details aren't being announced.

Marshall would join the team, bringing decades of film experience, especially of the blockbuster variety.

Marshall's impressive producing credits range from Raiders of the Lost Ark and Poltergeist to the recent Matt Damon Bourne trilogy. He is currently working on Jurassic Park 4.

Assassin's Creed centers on the adventures of a bartender who finds out he comes from a secret and historic line of assassins. He is captured by a corporation who forces him to hunt down historic artifacts using a device that brings forward the memories as well as skills of his ancestors.