While the Splinter Cell video games may have declined in quality with the last couple of releases, there’s no denying that they contain excellent potential for a feature film adaptation; something Ubisoft clearly agree with, as they’ve recently announced that they will be pushing ahead with plans to make a Splinter Cell movie.
Fully endorsed by well known military novelist Tom Clancy, Splinter Cell is a stealth-based series which follows a lone secret agent named Sam Fisher; who’s an infiltration expert, working for a top-secret division of the NSA known as Third Echelon; and features a great deal of night-vision, thermal imaging, and the use of fancy gadgets to distract and disrupt security patrols so Sam can get what he needs, in order to uncover whichever conspiracy is threatening to bring down The White House, or the world, in that particular game.
While many fans would love to see a Splinter Cell movie make it to the big screen, development isn’t as simple as it might be, because both Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures are currently disputing who has the rights to make the film (though Deadline seem to think that Paramount will be the likely victors, given their ties to other Clancy-based films that are currently in development); meaning it’ll be quite sometime before Sam Fisher finally makes his big screen debut.
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Source: Deadline.
