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[–] Stamets 70 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tom Hardy was doing a Splinter Cell movie?

[–] spankmonkey 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apparently the announcement was made in stealth mode.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

What better way to advertise your clandestine movie than with clandestine marketing?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Yeah but it’s dead now

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We live in the weirdest timelines.
Sonic revitalised video game adaptions.
But splinter cell, arguably one of the easiest things to adapt (style wise) gets merced.

[–] acosmichippo 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have a feeling it's because zany animated movies are an easier sell to kids.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i mean im a smoothbrain but, i think splinter cell would probably be equally cheap to make since you have so much less cgi youd need

[–] acosmichippo 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

dunno about budget, I'm just taking in terms of the demand for these types of movies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

yeah, thats fair

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Anything Splinter Cell without Michael Ironside's voice would be weird.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

All I want is a final proper send-off Splinter Cell before he dies. Sam Fisher's final job type vibe. I think there is some cool potential there - not that I trust Ubisoft to pull it off, mind.

[–] MegaUltraChicken 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And not including Sam Fisher would also be weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Like the Splinter Cell books? (At least the first one).

Edit: nevermind, I'm so wrong. It starts with a different agent at chapter 1 that threw me off but the entire book is focused on Sam Fisher.

[–] MegaUltraChicken 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I never read any of the books, I kind of fell off of Clancy quite a while ago. Worth reading?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I only read the first one so far. It's alright but they're not written by Clancy sadly.

[–] PunchingWood 18 points 2 months ago

Oh well, can't be disappointed about something I didn't even know was in the works lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Do kids nowadays even know what Splinter Cell is?

[–] PunchingWood 10 points 2 months ago

I bet it's a major reason why they decided to drop it.

Unless they'd pair it with a new game. Wasn't the last one over 10 years ago?

[–] Agent_Karyo 3 points 2 months ago

I doubt it.

[–] JigglySackles 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doubtful. But that could let it be an r rated or high pg13 option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The last game came out over a decade ago so the youngest audience would have to be 20 plus. Might as well take the opportunity to make it r-rated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People in their 20s are familiar will Splinter Cell classics like Splinter Cell Conviction.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

OOF. that's considered a classic now? 🪦

I have the artbook lying around my place somewhere...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My favorite part was the Afghanistan level.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Lol the least splinter cell like level in the series(still a fun level)

[–] wurstgulasch3000 1 points 2 months ago

I want a remake of Pandora Tomorrow. I got it for free with my graphics card back in the day but it only ran on windows XP for some weird reason and was hard to remaster or the source code was lost. I haven't played it in fifteen years but I have fond memories

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You could say that it splintered??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Is the Michael Bay Skibidi Toilet adaptation still coming though?