After being announced 20 years ago, Tom Hardy's "awesome" Splinter Cell movie is now officially dead

Splinter Cell
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The Splinter Cell movie was first announced back in 2004 with a trailer on the Chaos Theory disc. It later entere𒐪d development with Tom Hardy in talks to star in 2012, but then everything went very quiet with the latest update coming in 2015 when Hardy himself announced the movie would bಞe released in 2017.

Now, we have official confirmation from producer Basil Iwanyk that the project is dead. "That movie wඣould have been awesome," he told . "Just couldn't get it right, script-wise, budget-wise. But it was going to be great. We had a million different versions of it, b𒀰ut it was going to be hardcore and awesome. That's one of the ones that got away, which is really sad."

as a : "Why is it so hard to get more Splinter Cell :(". A : "How hard can this be? Jack Ryan meets Batman. C'mon this is a solved problem already." : "I think it'll work better as a series tbh".

Splinter Cell has had a hard run getting into live-action, but a Netflix animated show is on the way. Called 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Splinter Cell: Death Watch, the project has been described as a "sharp new take on modern espionage in the hybrid-war era". X-Men's Liev Schreiber voices Sam Fisheꦺr in the show, which has been created by Nobo🍒dy and John Wick writer Derek Kolstad.

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Fay Watson
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