'Once Again, F*** Off': Fantastic Four and Assassin's Creed Star Ralph Ineson Reacts to Report Ubisoft Cancelled Post-Civil War Game Featuring Former Slave Fighting Ku Klux Klan

Marvel histrion Ralph Ineson, who played Galactus successful this year's The Fantastic Four: First Steps, has weighed successful connected Ubisoft's determination to reportedly cancel a post-Civil War Assassin's Creed crippled starring a erstwhile Black enslaved arsenic its star.

According to a Game File study published this week, Ubisoft walked distant from the task past summertime portion the thought was inactive aboriginal successful development, owed to concerns surrounding the existent U.S. governmental clime and the antagonistic backlash to Black co-protagonist Yasuke successful Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Ineson antecedently featured successful Assassin's Creed: Black Flag arsenic pirate Charles Vane, an state of the game's leader Edward Kenway. Black Flag notably besides featured Adéwalé, a erstwhile Black enslaved whose quality went connected to prima arsenic the playable protagonist of Freedom Cry, 1 of the Assassin's Creed series' champion DLCs that was aboriginal re-released arsenic a standalone game.

"Once again, f*** off," Ineson wrote connected X, reposting details of the reportedly-cancelled game. (The connection follows another, adjacent much succint caller station — "F*** off" — directed by Ineson astatine a study concerning AI "actress" Tilly Norwood.)

While Ineson hasn't worked connected the Assassin's Creed bid successful immoderate time, it is absorbing to spot the histrion remark connected the marque amid the swirl of anticipation that a caller mentation of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag is successful development. Indeed, a caller study suggested that the task would see further material, and Edward Kenway histrion Matt Ryan has dropped a mates of hints he's backmost involved.

Could Ineson besides beryllium backmost signaling much for the Black Flag remake? Or is helium conscionable annoyed astatine the project's cancelation arsenic a instrumentality of the series?

Ubisoft antecedently declined to remark astir the task erstwhile contacted by IGN earlier this week.

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