A planned Splinter Cell movie starring actor Tom Hardy has been cancelled, its producer has suggested.
News around the live-action movie, first announced in 2012 with Hardy as protagonist Sam Fisher, has been fairly silent for the more than a decade since.
However, speaking toThe Direct, producer Basil Iwanyk, who signed on for theSplinter Cellproject in 2013, has suggested that it’s no longer happening.
“That movie would have been awesome… Just couldn’t get it right, script-wise, budget-wise,” he said. “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 Splinter Cell series follows veteran Fourth Echelon agent Sam Fisher as he embarks on secret missions for the National Security Agency’s covert action division.
Ubisoftisworking on a remake of the first Splinter Cell, the stealth action game which was first released in 2002 as anXboxexclusive, using its Snowdrop engine—which also powersThe Division,Avatar: Frontiers of Pandoraand other titles.
The remake will alsoinclude a rewritten storydesigned to appeal to a new generation of players, according to the publisher.
An animated series,Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, is planned for release onNetflix. Not much information has been shared on the show yet, which was simply described as “coming soon”.
