Ubisoft’s Tom Hardy-Led Splinter Cell Movie Is Dead, Surprising No-One

Surprising no-one, Ubisoft’s Tom Hardy-led Splinter Cell movie isn’t happening.

The Splinter Cell movie was announced in November 2012, with Hardy, at the time fresh from starring as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, set to play spec ops agent Sam Fisher.

Two years later, Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman was brought in to helm the movie, but since then, apart from vague quotes about how things were going from the people involved, nothing concrete emerged.

Now, producer Basil Iwanyk has confirmed the Splinter Cell movie is dead. In an interview with The Direct, Iwanyk called the film “one of the ones that got away.”

‘That movie would have been awesome,” Iwanyk said. “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.”

IGN has asked Ubisoft for comment.

The unfortunate fate of the Splinter Cell movie is in keeping with the status of the franchise as a whole. In September, Netflix revealed the first trailer for its long-in-development animated Splinter Cell show, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, which stars Liev Schreiber as Sam Fisher.

So we know that’s definitely happening, but what else? The gaming series hasn’t seen a brand-new, mainline entry for more than a decade. However, Ubisoft has revealed that a remake of the original Splinter Cell is in the works, although it’s without a release date.

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