After years of being stuck in development limbo, Ubisoft's highly anticipated Splinter Cell movie has officially been canceled. Initially announced in 2012, the film was set to feature Tom Hardy in the role of Sam Fisher, a black-ops agent known for his lethal or non-lethal efficiency while carrying out missions for the secret NSA sub-division, Third Echelon.
"That movie would have been incredible," producer Basil Iwanyk told The Direct. "We just couldn't get the script and budget aligned. It was going to be fantastic. We had countless versions of it, but it was going to be intense and amazing. It's one of those projects that slipped through the cracks, which is truly disappointing."
Details about the film were scarce during its development years, but in 2017, Iwanyk hinted at how it was going to be a "badass" action movie that aimed to bring a new twist to the genre. While the Splinter Cell movie is now defunct, an animated adaptation titled Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, created by John Wick's Derek Kolstad, is in the works. Liev Schrieber will voice Fisher in this Netflix series, although a release date has not yet been confirmed.
On the gaming front, a remake of the original Splinter Cell game is also being developed, but Ubisoft has been tight-lipped about its progress. The last significant update came in 2022, when Ubisoft commemorated the 20th anniversary of Splinter Cell by unveiling some of the new technology being utilized for the remake.
In other news, filming for Ubisoft's Watch Dogs has recently concluded, and the movie is now in post-production. Tom Blyth, known for his role in The Hunger Games, stars alongside Sophia Wilde from Talk to Me.
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