Tom Hardy’s SPLINTER CELL Movie Is Officially Dead But It Would Have Been ‘Hardcore And Awesome’

In 2012 it was announced Tom Hardy would play Sam Fisher in a film adaptation of the hit video game Chipped cell and that Doug Liman (Edge of tomorrow) would direct the film.

Over the years there were some updates on the project, but ultimately it never went anywhere and today, the film’s producer, Basil Iwanykconfirmed that the film project is dead.

Iwanyk told TheDirect that the Splinter Cell movie was put on hold after the creative team “failed to get it right.” But he praised the unproduced film, saying:

“That movie would have been amazing… I just couldn’t get it right, script-wise and budget-wise. But it would have been great. We had a million different versions of it, but it would be hardcore and awesome. This is one of the ones that’s gone, which is really sad.”

Speaking previously about the film, the producer said it would feel more like a “badass action movie with Tom Hardy” than a video game movie. He went on to talk about the challenge of making the film.

“The challenge in making Splinter Cell interesting was that we didn’t have this IP with a very specific backstory. This allowed us to create our own world and enhance and flesh out the characters.

“I don’t think one applies to the other because I don’t think our movie is going to feel like a movie out of a video game, I think it’s going to feel like a badass, Tom Hardy action movie, which is what we wanted.”

He added, “We will definitely make it a hard PG-13. No, it won’t be like [John] Wick,” but it’s going to be badass. The good news and the bad news is, obviously, the Bond movies have had a resurgence and the Jason Bourne movies are the Jason Bourne movies, so we’re trying to stay away from those movies in terms of tone, in terms of bad guys, in terms of settings.

“What is the world we haven’t seen yet? What’s an area of ​​the world and a conflict that we haven’t touched on film in a long time, to make it fresh?”

It would have been interesting to see how this Splinter Cell movie would have turned out. I’m sure a Splinter Cell movie will be made one day, but it will be made by a completely new creative team.

The game series follows Sam Fisher, a highly trained agent of a fictional covert operations division within the NSA known as the “Third Echelon”. Equipped with cutting-edge gadgets, tactical expertise and his iconic trifocal night vision goggles, Fisher embarks on high-stakes missions involving espionage, counterterrorism and political intrigue.