A producer on the long-awaited live-action Splinter Cell movie has confirmed that the project has been canceled, so it's going to be quite a while before you get to see Sam Fisher strut his stuff on screen (in a live-action capacity, anyway).
Per a report by movie publication The Direct, producer Basil Iwanyk says the movie is no longer happening. He says the creative forces behind the film "just couldn't get it right, script-wise, budget-wise", but that it "would have been awesome".
Iwanyk goes on to call the Splinter Cell movie "one of the ones that got away, which is really sad". Given that we hadn't heard anything from the film for a number of years, it's perhaps not surprising that it's been canned, but it's a shame nonetheless.
We are, however, still getting the Splinter Cell animated series, which was first mooted all the way back in 2020.
Officially titled Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, the show will star Liev Schreiber as Sam Fisher, with original voice actor Michael Ironside claiming there's "no way" he should still be playing Fisher given his advanced age. I'm sure a legion of Splinter Cell fans would disagree, but there we are....
