Ubisoft’s long-promised animated sequence Splinter Cell: Deathwatch has lastly been given an extended trailer and a launch date. Due October 14, the Liev Schreiber-fronted anime additionally stars comic Janet Varney as Anna “Grim” Grímsdóttir, and has been within the works for about four-hundred-thousand years.
OK, 5 years, nevertheless it actually has dragged on. Within the meantime we realized a whole Splinter Cell movie starring Tom Hardy was canned, whereas there’s been no phrase on different introduced Ubisoft TV and film initiatives like Watch_Dogs, Past Good & Evil, The Division, Ghost Recon, Riders Republic, a Rabbids function, and even a Simply Dance film. So truthfully, the truth that something in any respect is coming to screens feels pretty miraculous.
The trailer, nevertheless, is…not what I used to be anticipating. In 2024, Michael Ironside—who voiced title character Sam Fisher within the video games—said that he was “too old” to play the part at 75, with the function handed over to 57-year-old Liev Schreiber for the anime. So it’s one thing of a shock to see Sam showing within the trailer wanting like a 75-year-old man.
There’s nonetheless no clear thought what the present will truly be about, past it being private to Fisher, following the dying of somebody referred to as Douglas Shetland. What we do see is a whole lot of weapons being fired, and Sam mistaking a good few folks for knife racks. Oh, and whereas it’s weirdly tossed away in the midst of the brief teaser, at the least the three-light googles seem at one level. I imply, I’m not answerable for Netflix advertising, however given many of the trailer seems to be like Sam Fisher: The Retirement Dwelling Years, I’d maybe have ended on the long-lasting headwear and possibly one thing that prompt some kind of intrigue.
The higher information is the staff behind the present. The creator is Derek Kolstad, chargeable for Bob Odenkirk’s reinvention as an motion hero in No one, and the author of the primary three John Wick films. That’s some caliber, though I battle to not think about the scripts for John Wick are largely “John punches a man, and then another man and then he shoots three guys, and then he gets shot in the leg but shakes it off and punches four other guys and throws knives at a guy.” Together with Kolstad is a writing staff that options scribes from Shooter, and a few recent faces too.
It’s an oddly witless and plotless teaser, though given Kolstad is head author, it appears implausible the present itself may fall that manner. Proper? Please? As for Fisher’s age, maybe the present is canon to the video games, given the final one—Splinter Cell: Blacklist—got here out a rare 12 years in the past. Perhaps it’s to make the individuals who bear in mind taking part in the video games really feel seen.
