Did you know there was going to be a Splinter Cell movie? Neither did we, and now it's canceled

There are more and more adaptations of video games to film and television. Now some even turn out well. That’s why it’s surprising when we hear about adaptations that don’t come to fruition. It seems to be a sweet moment in the relationship between these two media, and it’s hard to think that things could go wrong. At least, not when we’re talking about projects that have been in development for over ten years and we didn’t even remember they existed.

When neither the money nor the script manage to be in place

That is the case with the movie of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. This adaptation was confirmed to be in development in 2012 and was going to have Tom Hardy play Sam Fisher. It was also going to be written by Eric Warren Singer, screenwriter of Top Gun: Maverick, and directed by Doug Liman, director of Edge of Tomorrow. This means it was announced at the same time as the Assassin’s Creed movie, which came out in 2016 and was an absolute disaster. And since then, we haven’t heard anything.

According to Basil Iwanyk, producer of John Wick and at one point producer of the Splinter Cell movie, the film is now dead, as he mentioned to The Direct. Although he says the movie would have been great, they couldn’t make it work in terms of script or budget.

Although it is not a surprise, because we haven’t heard about the game in over a decade, it is still a shame. But if you are eager for Sam Fisher, at least we know that Ubisoft is working with Netflix on an animated series featuring the famous spy. Hopefully, this will lead to a resurrection of the character. And his video games.

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