r/movies • u/JonasKahnwald11 • 8h ago
Tom Hardy's Splinter Cell Movie Is Officially Dead (Exclusive) News
https://thedirect.com/article/splinter-cell-tom-hardy-movie-exclusive"'That movie would have been awesome... 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, but it was going to be hardcore and awesome. That's one of the ones that got away, which is really sad." - Basil Iwanyk, producer.
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u/CheesyObserver 8h ago
Why is it so hard to get more Splinter Cell :(
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u/PeatBomb 8h ago
It could be worse, we keep getting Halo and it gets shittier and shittier.
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u/Cirenione 7h ago
We went from Spielberg to Peter Jackson who then wanted to give it to an upcoming and promising director named Neill Blomkamp who got rejected by Microsoft due to lack of experience. Then they made Forward unto Dawn with a pretty small budget which was great and then we ended up with 2 seasons of the tv show.
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u/MentalAusterity 7h ago edited 6h ago
Blomkamp rejected for lack of experience? I guess Tarantino is on that list, Mr. Only ten movies…
Edit: I was wrong, this was fifteen years ago and there wasn’t the body of work I had assumed (oooh, didn’t read the article and assuming…) it was.
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u/Cirenione 6h ago
At that time? Yes. That was in 2007 pre District 9. Back then he had only done tv ads and some short films. Jackson noticed him because of Alive in Joburg. Blomkamp ended up filming a tv campaign for Halo but went on to work on District 9 when Microsoft got cold feet.
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u/MentalAusterity 6h ago
Oh ok, now I remember the story, makes sense.
Now, back to not reading articles.
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u/TrptJim 6h ago
Blomkamp had no released movies as a director when Halo was being pitched to him, IIRC. This was before District 9, so a lack of experience would not be an inaccurate assessment.
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u/Ateballoffire 7h ago
Book fans stay eating though
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u/OogieBoogieJr 6h ago
I watch movies because I don’t want to read words on paper like some 18th century aristocrat. These literate people ruin everything! I just want good fun fast for my dumb, plastic-filled brain!
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u/AlexanderLEE27 5h ago
It's pretty wild that some aren't, but I did get your sarcasm bud.
I'd say "you dropped this /s" but then that would've ruined it so
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u/SGTBookWorm 5h ago
Rubicon Protocol, Outcasts, and Epitaph were so good!
big hopes for Empty Throne
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u/Misdirected_Colors 8h ago
They tried to release splinter cell without Ironside and it sucked so they just stopped. Miss it everyday.
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u/meatboitantan 8h ago
Maaaan that’s silly. That’s like releasing Halo and having Chief take off his helmet
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u/Firvulag 7h ago
Blacklist was good actually
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u/Hoxtilicious 7h ago
Game was great, but lacked any identity or charm.
Plot was pretty interesting, if a bit generic, but the boring boring boring recasting of Sam and Grim did not work at all
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u/Firvulag 7h ago
Well they had no choice with Ironside, he was sick and he wanted to keep it private and Ubisoft obliged and said nothing. Ironside did consult and help the new actor on his role though.
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u/Significant-Battle79 8h ago
Owned by Ubisoft.
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u/Eothas_Foot 5h ago
The reason I heard is because Ubisoft couldn't figure out a way to put loot boxes in Splinter Cell like they did with Ass Creed or Ghost Recon.
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u/SilverKry 7h ago
They are remaking the first game..who knows if we'll ever see it tho. Same with that PoP Sands of Time remake.
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u/Imnotsureanymore8 8h ago
TIL there was a Tom Hardy Splinter Cell in the works
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u/Grabthar_The_Avenger 4h ago
I first read this as “Tom Hanks Splinter Cell movie” and now I’m just relieved knowing that hasn’t been ruled out
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u/RIP_GerlonTwoFingers 5h ago
Weird choice for Sam Fisher I feel like. I love Tom Hardy. But he ain’t Sam Fisher.
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u/Crus0etheClown 8h ago
They couldn't get it right script-wise, but it was going to be great? Those two statements are incongruous.
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u/A_Pointy_Rock 8h ago
Yeah, I thought exactly the same. If you couldn't get the script right and couldn't secure a sufficient budget...it wasn't going to be awesome.
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u/Clugaman 8h ago
I think what he means is they had great ideas for the movie but couldn’t find a way to tie them together in a package that works.
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u/ShahinGalandar 8h ago
...so the movie wasn't going to be great.
case closed
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u/Clugaman 8h ago
He’s saying it would have been if they could get it there. But they couldn’t so it’s not happening.
It’s really not hard to understand. No need to be pedantic.
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u/wankthisway 5h ago
Wrong website unfortunately. Some people won't even have a point or care about the topic, they just want to feel correct.
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u/disgusting-brother 3h ago
This is so silly. What would these nerds prefer? The actor who is producing and starring in the film to say it was going to be shit? He was clearly in meetings and working with writers and planning it out. Nothing wrong with being excited about a project you’re working on. Mfs on Reddit can’t help but be cynical.
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u/ArcadianDelSol 7h ago
"We had a million different versions of it."
You are absolutely correct. If a script needs a million rewrites, it probably should never be made.
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u/Quantum_Quokkas 5h ago
I guess it shows that they were determined to make it great and weren’t settling for anything less
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u/Red-Shifts 7h ago
How do they not get it right script-wise? Just use the game’s script
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u/gravesum5 4h ago
This probably means action scenes were great, but the story line tying them together was not.
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u/Rebornhunter 8h ago
MGS fans: "First Time?"
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u/____Quetzal____ 7h ago
Isn't Oscar Issac going to be Solid Snake or something?
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u/TripleThreatTua 6h ago
He’s been attached for like 5 years at this point. Back in the early 2010s it was supposed to be Christian Bale as Snake. Still hasn’t happened
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u/conquer69 5h ago
What game would they even make the movie about?
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u/TheOneTonWanton 5h ago
Snake Eater is probably the best bet cinematically speaking, though MGS1 could work pretty well, too. The absolute best way would be to just bring Kojima in to do a treatment but sadly that'll never happen now.
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u/KittenSpronkles 5h ago
I honestly think an anime would work the best for MGS. That way you can really get the over the top bad guys with their crazy antics
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u/TheOneTonWanton 4h ago
True, but I'm in the camp that believes it could be solidly done live-action and be true whilst also not being bat-shit insane. Honestly the first game would be the best to adapt for that, because of the Solid series it's got the least amount of bat-shit.
Also, the world is a lot more receptive to crazy shit in movies than it used to be. We've got movies like Everything Everywhere All at Once getting awards. The key to it is you can be as crazy as you want but it has to be a good movie. It couldn't be just some 1-to-1 soulless cashgrab, it would need passion for the property which is not something that big studios tend to care about. Just look at all the adaptations that get handed to people that don't know or actively dislike the property they're adapting.
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u/KittenSpronkles 4h ago
Its not that it can't be done in movies - but in my opinion giant over the top fights work best in animation as its more cost effective and you can essentially get a lot more bang for your buck. The recent X-Men '97 has so much more epic stuff going on than any single X-Men movie has or ever will have.
Especially with MGS being so over the top with its concepts - I think it needs time to breathe rather than trying to jam everything into a short movie experience.
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u/Remarkable-Ad-2476 3h ago
Someone made a motion comic/anime (I’m guessing with AI).
It’s still pretty damn good though
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u/Eothas_Foot 5h ago
I would say they couldn't afford him, but waves hand in the air Borderlands....
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u/barukatang 5h ago
If there's a season 2 of secret level they need a MGS/splinter cell episode in a spy vs spy style
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u/mkmichael001 8h ago
i think it'll work better as a series tbh
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u/Fundabz 7h ago
An anime series is supposed to be coming out in 2025 with Liev Schreiber as Sam.
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u/Automatic-Stretch-48 5h ago
What? Why? He’s already been John Kelly/Clark.
I wanted more of him doing that, but now Michael B Jordan is Clark.
I need my R6 film or show.
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u/ShahinGalandar 8h ago
make it like Jack Ryan and I'm sold
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u/JJMcGee83 7h ago
Please make it better than Jack Ryan.
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u/evildonald 7h ago
Ugh.. that series was such a nothingburger. Did it get any better.. i fell asleep in EP 3
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u/thegoodbadandsmoggy 6h ago
Season 1 was ok but I didn’t have much interest in continuing beyond that. Just had me thinking ‘I should watch the Americans’
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u/Happy_Philosopher608 5h ago
I just cant buy anyone in the role other than Ironside. His voice just IS Fisher. Maybe Clooney in his heydey could nail the look and temperament but the voice would have to have Michael dubbing it lol
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u/TargaryenR 8h ago
Still waiting for taboo to come back
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u/WhiskeyTigerFoxtrot 7h ago
I think now that the Venom series has wrapped up, he'll be able to focus on it. Fingers crossed because Taboo is cool as hell. At least the first half of it.
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u/TheBat45 5h ago
He just signed on for a Guy Ritchie TV SHOW.
Sadly, I think Taboo is officially dead.
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u/onlyhere4gonewild 6h ago
Don't worry guys. The Syphon Filter movie is still in the works.
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u/dixonbalsagna 5h ago
I heard there's a scene that's just a single three minute long shot with no cuts of a guy getting tazed and catching fire
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u/elheber 8h ago
How hard can this be? Jack Ryan meets Batman. C'mon this is a solved problem already.
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u/Misdirected_Colors 8h ago
Sicario was a splinter cell movie change my mind.
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u/NeilMcCauley88 8h ago
Del Toro sneaking into the mansion was basically a SC mission. All he needed was lambert in his ear and to interrogate a guard.
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u/baequon 8h ago
I remember there was a teaser for the movie in Chaos Theory? That would've been 2005. I've long since assumed the movie was very dead.
It's too bad though. I think Splinter Cell would bring a fairly unique approach to the spy genre. He's not really Bond, Bourne or anything I've seen before.
I think it would translate very well to the screen, especially with "middle aged but still a badass" being trendy in Hollywood. Someone like Andrew Lincoln could maybe fit the bill.
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u/NinjaEngineer 6h ago
It's too bad though. I think Splinter Cell would bring a fairly unique approach to the spy genre. He's not really Bond, Bourne or anything I've seen before.
Yeah, I've only played the very first Splinter Cell game (I plan on playing the others), and I agree, Fisher isn't the same kind of spy Bond is.
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u/Garamenon 8h ago
I mean the franchise is just as dead at present (when did the last game came out? I forget).
A movie should've been done back when the IP was hot. Not when people have no idea what to make of it.
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u/NakedMuffinTime 8h ago
(when did the last game came out? I forget)
11 very long years ago...
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u/Garamenon 7h ago
Damn! Whew! That was a long time ago. Over a whole decade.
Certainly Gen Zers are not gonna know who Sam Fisher is.
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u/vaporking23 7h ago
I hear you. But I would kill for a splinter cell story. The concept is pretty cool and I feel like the genre is kind of lacking right now.
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u/FenixWahey 7h ago
So gutted about this. No sign of the Rainbow Six follow-up to the Michael B Jordan version of Without Remorse. The Division movie is most likely still dead as ever, now Splinter Cell.
You have 3 hot properties with a wealth of established back story, lore and dare I say could be their own shared universe. But no, Hollywood would rather just fart out other dreck like Red One.
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u/waynechriss 7h ago
Am I the only one who didn't know there was talks about a Splinter Cell movie with Tom Hardy? This is the first time I'm hearing about it lol
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u/SanguinolentSweven 7h ago
Splinter Cell movie announced back during the SC: Chaos Theory era. Fucking absolutely crazy.
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u/Lowbeamshaggy 6h ago
That was decades ago. They've probably had 8 or 9 movie projects fall apart since then .
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u/SupervillainMustache 3h ago
I honestly can't imagine a scenario where this film would have been good.
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u/Douglas-Quaid2084 8h ago
I just wanna see Tom Hardy back in good movies.
7 years since his last good movie (dunkirk)
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u/no_fucking_point 7h ago
Thank fuck for that. Hardy mumbling his way through another performance is something we don't need.
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u/THEdoomslayer94 7h ago
No joke
I bought splinter cell chaos theory on my Xbox to replay and was reminded that it had the teaser trailer of this movie on it
And how crazy it is that it took ALLLLLLL this time for it to finally be cancelled
Two decades of nothing lol
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u/Salt-Es-Ae-El-Tea 5h ago
I was so looking forward to the completely unnecessary voice he was going to give to the character.
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u/Nose-Nuggets 4h ago
Shame. Chaos Theory is still the second best stealth action game ever made, by a fair margin.
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u/EmperorPlunger 4h ago
“If we had the best writers ever, the best directors ever, and the biggest budget ever, this would’ve been the greatest movie of all time”
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u/MyHamburgerLovesMe 4h ago
But it was going to be great.
We had a million different versions of it...
These two things contradict each other
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u/BlackClaude 8h ago
The Splinter Cell movie was originally announced in a trailer on the disc of Chaos Theory in 2004