Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell movie is dead

Despite a recent spate of successful game adaptations to the screen – e.g , AND publisher Ubisoft continues its infinite series of cinematic misfortunes. The final blow is the long-planned film, which can not be made.

When it involves movies, Ubisoft’s list of successes includes one movie: 2021 is extremely silly and really funny. Before that we have now the critically trashed and , preceded by Uwe Boll’s horribly terrible 2008 film. (To be fair, I’ve at the very least seen a profit, though not enough to stop planned sequels from being canceled.) There are loads of promised projects in between. that never quite reach our eyes.

It is now known that one in every of them is which it was first confirmed to be in development in 2012. Tom Hardy () will play the ultra-spy Sam Fisher, script written by Eric Warren Singer (), and later joined by director Doug Liman (), announced concurrently the film starring Michael Fassbender, although only in one in every of them ever made it to the screen. Wrong? We’ll never know.

According to producer Basil Iwanyk – during some related promotion – said the film was “now dead.”

“This movie would be amazing,” the producer told the location. “I just couldn’t get it right, script-wise and budget-wise. But it was going to be great.” Mmm-hmm.

Admittedly, Clancy’s idea of ​​a undercover agent performing typical espionage tasks must have been easy enough, but it surely wasn’t necessarily terrible. But within the producer’s imagination it might have been perfection. “It was supposed to be hardcore and amazing,” he continued.

Intellectual reproduction

Ubisoft has actually created a complete division dedicated to the means of converting its IPs to non-interactive screens, called Ubisoft Film & Television. It was one in every of the production corporations behind this terrible movie, and indeed, it was probably most successful with the Apple+ series, which just announced a brand new season and spin-off.

The company also offers almost every Ubisoft brand you’ll be able to consider at some stage of production, including animated series for Netflix, film (with Sony) that is allegedly currently in productionand… oh shit…AND “feature film”, although this was announced in 2019 and no further information has been released. There are also claims (Warner) and (each Netflix) at the very least chosen.

I’m so sorry to those that couldn’t wait to at some point see Tom Hardy as Sam Fisher. However, there is compensation in the shape of an upcoming Netflix animation that it has proof of life and every little thing.

Canceling things is in fact nothing recent for Ubisoft, which has a habit of killing many projectswhile allowing vaporware dreams proceed to destroy money.

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