Sorry, Splinter Cell followers, however that lengthy in improvement film seems to be lifeless and buried.
Manner again in 2012, a Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell film was introduced with Tom Hardy hooked up to play protagonist Sam Fisher. In the event you aren’t one of the best with dates, a whole 12 years has handed since then, and clearly stated film by no means materialised. That is not all that unusual, the Uncharted film had been in improvement since 2008 and that solely got here out in 2022 (16 entire years, wowza), and with online game films doing higher than ever, there’s all the time the possibility it might have picked up steam once more. Besides, that is not the case, as based on the movie’s producer, improvement on it has formally stopped.
Talking to The Direct, producer Basil Iwanyk spoke of the Splinter Cell film, saying “that film would have been superior… Simply could not get it proper, script-wise, budget-wise. Nevertheless it was going to be nice. We had one million completely different variations of it, however it was going to be hardcore and superior. That is one of many ones that received away, which is basically unhappy.” Listening to that there have been “one million completely different variations of it” definitely makes it clear why a definitive model was by no means locked in, however that’ll clearly be a disgrace for followers of the sequence. No less than there’s that animated sequence coming subsequent yr!
Proper now, the standing of the Splinter Cell sequence as an entire is a bit up within the air. There hasn’t been a brand new entry since 2013’s Blacklist, and whereas a remake for the unique may need been introduced again in 2021, Ubisoft has been fairly quiet on it. The sport’s director, David Grivel, left Ubisoft in 2022 as nicely, so it’s kind of of a Schrodinger’s Splinter Cell proper now. Ubisoft is in a spot of hassle nowadays too, so I am certain it is hoping Murderer’s Creed Shadows will give it the increase it fairly desperately wants.