Assassin's Creed Edward Kenway Actor Alleges Ubisoft Threatened to Sue Him for Hinting at Black Flag Remake

Just successful lawsuit you weren't definite what to marque of each those Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag remake/remasters rumors, Ubisoft reportedly "threatened to sue" the dependable of protagonist Edward Kenway for antecedently hinting that fans would get the accidental to bushed the crippled again.

Multiple reports charting the game's improvement person surfaced implicit the past mates of years, with Skull and Bones workplace Ubisoft Singapore reporting moving connected thing yet much important than a elemental remaster.

But Ubisoft itself has yet to corroborate the task and declined to remark connected the substance past month, erstwhile an Assassin's Creed merchandise shaper dropped an evident Black Flag remake hint.

This latest rumor, however, came straight from starring antheral Matt Ryan himself. Last month, the histrion down the game's hero, Edward Kenway, offered up immoderate teasing words astatine a convention. Asking a instrumentality if they'd completed Black Flag, helium teased: "Well, you mightiness person to bushed it again…"

When the instrumentality replied, "Is this true? I person to tally done each of them again," Ryan responded with a knowing wink, saying, "Well, particularly this one. There's a crushed I accidental that, but I can't accidental anything."

The communicative doesn't extremity there, though. Meeting fans astatine a antithetic normal — and contempt the information the Black Flag remake feels similar an unfastened concealed — Ryan would lone respond to further questions connected the taxable with: "I don't know, mate," (thanks, PC Gamer).

When pressed further, Ryan said: "Well, the happening is, erstwhile that happened, idiosyncratic was doing this—" (at this constituent Ryan pointed to the idiosyncratic holding up their telephone to grounds the interaction) "— I was being precise escaped and open, but I didn't cognize that they really were signaling maine connected their phone. And past the institution threatened to writer me. Yeah, truthful I accidental nothing."

IGN has asked Ubisoft for comment.

While Ryan is apt alert of the ongoing speculation astir a Black Flag remaster, could his engagement successful it widen beyond seeing his anterior enactment re-released? Reports person suggested Ubisoft is moving connected a important re-working of Black Flag — does that mean Ryan himself is involved, re-recordling dialogue, oregon contributing to caller communicative elements?

With nary all-new Assassin's Creed crippled acceptable for the extremity of this year, fans judge the Black Flag remake would beryllium good positioned to get successful clip for the holidays. Here's hoping Ryan isn't made to locomotion the plank for dropping this latest hint, and it's not excessively agelong earlier Ubisoft makes the remake official.

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