Okay, so this probably didn’t need confirmation, seeing as its been years now since we’ve had any kind of update, but producer Basil Iwanyk has confirmed that plans have been abandoned for a Splinter Cell movie starring Tom Hardy.
“That movie would have been awesome,” Iwanyk told The Direct. “Just couldn’t get it right, script-wise, budget-wise. But it was going to be great. We had a million different versions of it, but it was going to be hardcore and awesome. That’s one of the ones that got away, which is really sad.”
The Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell video game franchise launched back in 2002 with the release of the first game in the stealth action series, which follows Sam Fisher, a black ops agent working for the secretive ‘Third Echelon’ division of the National Security Agency. Hardy first became attached to a film adaptation back in 2012, with Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) initially attached as a director before the project slipped into development hell following his exit a few years later.
While a Splinter Cell movie won’t be happening any time soon, Ubisoft is currently working on “from the ground up” remake of the original game, while Netflix recently announced that Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) will be lending his voice to Sam Fisher for the animated series Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, coming soon to the streamer.
