Splinter Cell has long been one of Ubisoft’s most popular franchises even years after the release of its last game, though various attempts to bring it to the big screen have resulted in development hell. However, Netflix announced at Geeked Week it is developing an animated series titled Splinter Cell: Deatchwatch with Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) voicing Splinter Cell agent Sam Fisher.
Released on the original X-Box in 2002, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell followed Sam Fisher, a highly trained CIA black-ops operative who worked for the agency’s Fourth Echelon division and comes out of retirement for a new mission. His objectives were to infiltrate enemy lines using stealth, never being seen or letting enemies know he was ever there, though he had free reign to kill whoever and whenever he wanted when the situation called for it.
Splinter Cell proved to be a hit for Ubisoft and X-Box, spawning several sequels and tie-in books, though Clancy himself never wrote any of them. The series even featured some connections to other Clancy-based video games such as Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six: Vegas. Michael Ironside voiced Fisher for five of the Splinter Cell games with Eric Johnson taking on the role for the last game in the series, Splinter Cell: Blacklist. For years Tom Hardy was attached to the Splinter Cell feature film, but nothing has ever come of that.
There is no word on plot details for the series, but the teaser does show a bearded Fisher in an accident of some type, letting fans know we’ll still be seeing a veteran Sam Fisher with the series’ iconic sound of his night vision goggles booting up.
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