Actor Tom Hardy will step into the iconic role of Sam Fisher in Ubisoft’s big screen adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell video game franchise. Ubisoft Motion Pictures has also enlisted Eric Singer to write the screenplay for the movie.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell is an award-winning stealth action video game series that has sold more than 23 million copies since its debut in 2002. The game follows protagonist Sam Fisher, a highly-trained special operative in a fictional black-ops sub-division, Echelon. Sam Fisher and the agents of Echelon utilize combat skills, weapons and cutting-edge gadgets to neutralize
international terrorist threats and rogue forces in modern, realistic stories ripped from the headlines. Development for the next installment, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist, is being led by the Ubisoft Toronto studio, and the game is set for release in Spring 2013.
Ubisoft Motion Pictures was created in January 2011 to expand the audience of Ubisoft’s successful video game brands by bringing them to film, television and Web series. In addition to the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell movie, the studio is also partnering with New Regency on the upcoming movie based on the Assassin’s Creed franchise, and is in production on the Rabbids TV series, a collection of 78 seven-minute CGI episodes based on the insane stars of the video game franchise of the same name, in partnership with France Televisions and Nickelodeon.
The deals with Hardy and Singer mark another important step for Ubisoft Motion Pictures in its strategy of creating high-quality standalone movies that remain faithful to the video game franchises on which they’re based.
