Splinter Cell Movie Is Reportedly Dead, Producer Admits Team "Just Couldn't Get It Right"

Good. Uwe Boll's Postal is the only one good live-action adaptation of video game.

To be honest I actually have respect for them for cancelling saying they couldn't do it justice most don't care and release an awful piece of garbage that completely insults the material and it's fans (remembers that the infamous Avi Arad has gotten his hands on both Zelda and Naruto and is producing movies for both as a single tear rolls down face)

If only they could have cast Micheal Ironside in his prime. Always thought he did a great job voicing the character.

They couldn't turn 20 minutes of watching guards to learn their movement patterns, waiting 10 more minutes until they get into the right positions, until finally moving into a new area to repeat the process into a compelling and engaging screenplay?

Who would have thought.

Shame these where such good games. I don't know if based off a book as read alot of tom Clancy books over the year. Written by random authors now. But never across any. I own a splinter cell game on 3ds hant played it yet picked up last year. Played them on Xbox ps3. Underated games. Perhaps ubisoft hopeing to do a game off the popularity of the movie to bring the franchise back. I think they still could. Enough fans out Thier. A good old school stealth shooter would be good with no hollywood cut scenes or wall running. First shooter I played was tom Clancy rainbow six I just love replaying the missions I owned it on PS1 but pc version Def better. I can still remember my favourite mission 24 years ago I last played it (read the book 900pages) computer game definitely better

I read a few of the books, I remember them being OK. So they could have a decent spy movie. I never played any of the games.

It's weird they're pushing Splinter Cell so hard as anything but a game series. Maybe if they weren't morons wasting years of people's lives on games like Sea of Th-no...Black Fla-no...googles

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Skull and Bones! Maybe they could've made a good game instead of failing to save that game for years, like Splinter Cell. To y'know...keep the brand alive instead of assuming a game series that's been dead since before the Ps4 will magically get some of that Sonic/Mario/Last of Us/Uncharted adaptation money.

Not that many people were pining for Sam Fisher, so it's probably for the best.

First I heard of this. Shame. I'm a fan of Tom Hardy's movies and would've liked to see him in the role.

Better to not release something at all, then to churn out yet another piece of garbage.

@Vyacheslav333 Postal sure is on top list of the best movie based on games.

Uwe Boll announced "Postal 2" in 2024 and cancelled it 2 months ago due to lack of funding.

Anyway. When you make a movie about a game just to make it, it will just end up like Borderlands, Doom, Street Fighter etc.

At least Bethesda were smart enough to refuse Fallout movie/tv series every time someone wanted to make it for the wrong reasons.

Anyway. That Zelda movie will be terrible, because it has writers, producers etc. with a very bad history behind them.

It's what happens when Nintendo are desperate to get it done.
Bethesda would never have done anything with those who make the Zelda movie. It's sad Nintendo became so desperate.

@kkslider5552000 Someone here didn't do any research or read any UBI statements for years...

1.) UBI would have cancelled Skull & Bones many years ago if they funded it.
The government in Singapore funded Skull & Bones, and wanted to get it completed at any cost.
Blame the government there for it to exist and not UBI.
Never blame the wrong people.

2.) UBI have over and over again said for many years that none of their developers wants to make a new Splinter Cell, because it's impossible to please gamers no matter how it's made.
Splinter Cell Blacklist were a big budget flop that killed off the series. It didn't become popular until a year later.
Blame the Splinter Cell fans for discovering Blacklist too late when sales didn't matter anymore.

The problem with Splinter Cell is that when you make one kind of game, you will only please 50% of the Splinter Cell fans. If you are pleasing the other 50%, you will not please the first 50% of fans instead.
It's just impossible to make a new game in the series as it will flop either way.

UBI don't have money anymore to make big budget games for a long time anyway if they ever recover, and Splinter Cell is a sore thumb to UBI.

Good. We didn’t need this.

@Toastmaster I did forget those details of the Skull and Bones debacle, to be fair, but its not like everything else Ubisoft has done has been a success either. Doesn't justify all the decisions where they knew the game was bad, tried to fix it, and still made the same bad game it always was, but ok.

But as for the rest, I don't believe them. Ubisoft makes the most sloptastic games half the time, products for the sake of products for the sake of trends and money, made by gigantic teams, the idea that they're all even remotely close to passion projects is beyond absurd. Especially since AFAIK the last Splinter Cell release went in a more action-oriented direction, which is the most go-to, obvious, sellout direction to take a stealth game.

I don't believe they care about the desires of their creators (certainly not their well being with what's come out in recent years) and making some sort of Splinter Cell release would at worst, be right in line with how I think the company works, regardless. I do not trust that information to be accurate. And if its actually true somehow, then I wish that better reflected most things in the company.

While not remotely as bad, it reminds me how Nintendo still relies heavily on IP to succeed for obvious business reasons beyond purely what the people in charge want to make but then some people look at the worst decisions in new Paper Mario and are like "WELL ACTUALLY ITS JUST A CREATIVE VISION TO HATE THE CONCEPT OF NAMED CHARACTERS, DO YOU HATE ART?!" No, its just dumb, I think its dumb, I don't need a reason other than pointing out how dumb it is.

@kkslider5552000 Assassins Creed Valhalla, Far Cry 6, Watch Dogs 3 and Riders Republic were probably their last successes.
Maybe Avatar and Motorfest too, especially on PS5 since it never had anything like Forza Horizon on Xbox.

UBI is known for their "repeat" open world formula and are mostly playing it safe on consoles, but not on PC. (More on it below)
If they made Splinter Cell open world too, it would be flamed only because it's a UBI open world.

The Division 3, AC Shadows and Far Cry 7 is perhaps the only known upcoming AAA Games from UBI at this point.
AC Shadows previews backfired so hard , because the game were revealed as a blasphemy to Japanese history.
UBI delayed the game until 2025 to do major changes...
At this point people are so negative vs UBI that it might flop either way.

One thing almost no one knows is that UBI released many games exclusive to PC for years.
The praised Anno Series, Ode, 2 x Rayman remasters, Sports Champions, That new ball game from 2024 and a bunch of other games that were never released on any console.
The innovative and experimental UBI games are usually PC exclusive.

Riders Republic were the only innovative game for consoles for years perhaps.

Nintendo is kind of UBI by being on the safe side most of the time. Mostly Mario related games.
I don't think Switch 2 will sell as much as Switch, because it won't be the most powerful handheld when it releases.

There is at least 15 brands that makes powerful PC Handhelds now that also runs Xbox Series X and PS5 games natively on same handheld.