John Wick’s author Derek Kolstad is about to write an animated series Splinter Cell for Netflix and Ubisoft, Collider confirmed.
Details are narrow at this time, however, according to Variety, the series won an order for 16 two-season episodes. Kolstad will also serve as an executive manufacturer on the project, which is based on the popular video game.
First released in 2002 and acclaimed by critics and players, Splinter Cell follows former U.S. Navy SEAL Sam Fisher, who is recruited through the NSA to paint for the agency’s mysterious Third Echelon division, where he will have to perform a series of black operations missions that require fatal tactics.
Hollywood has been looking to adapt Splinter Cell for years, with Tom Hardy even signing to play Fisher in 2012, the film never started and the assignment is now considered inactive. Instead, Ubisoft made the decision that a television series was the way forward, and specifically a Netflix animated series, which turned out to have been worth it for some other video game adaptation: Castlevania. Clearly, they learned a lesson from the film Assassin’s Creed, which dealt a harder blow to the video game logo than to the box office.
Splinter Cell spawned six sequels and a series of similar novels that Raymond Benson wrote under the pseudonym David Michaels, the call of writer Tom Clancy is attached to the title. Given Clancy’s agreement with Amazon, I’m surprised that the streaming service didn’t leave room for Splinter Cell, I guess the animation is rarely very strong.
Kolstad is the member of John Wick’s trilogy with Keanu Reeves, and has also worked on Marvel’s upcoming Disney series, The Falcon and the Winter Solider. Kolstad also likes to make action stars with actors, because not only did he co-create the quibi die Hart series, in which Kevin Hart attends action star school, but also wrote The upcoming Nobody Universal revenge film with Bob Odenkirk. .
Ubisoft also produces the Apple Mythic Quest series, which is positioned on the wild walls of a video game progression studio. The series recently renewed the season for a moment, and its additional, wonderfully creative pandemic-themed episode, so to find out how it was born, click here.