Tom Hardy’s Splinter Cell movie is reportedly cancelled: ‘We just couldn’t get it right’

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 to The Direct, producer Basil Iwanyk, who signed on for the Splinter Cell project 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.

Ubisoft is working on a remake of the first Splinter Cell, the stealth action game which was first released in 2002 as an Xbox exclusive, using its Snowdrop engine—which also powers The Division, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and other titles.

The remake will also include a rewritten story designed to appeal to a new generation of players, according to the publisher.

An animated series, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, is planned for release on Netflix. Not much information has been shared on the show yet, which was simply described as “coming soon”.