Sam Fisher hasn’t starred in a Splinter Cell video game in over a decade, but he’s getting his comeback this fall. Netflix has released a new trailer for Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, an animated series that sends Sam on another mission, and it’s set to debut on October 14.
Michael Ironside voiced Fisher in most of the Splinter Cell games, but the leading role in this series will now be filled by Liev Schreiber. There aren’t a lot of story details in the trailer beyond Sam kicking some butt and taking names. But the trailer does pause long enough to focus on the grave of Douglas Shetland, one of Sam’s friends whom he was forced to kill when he went rogue. If the animated series is following the plot of the games, this would set the story somewhere around the Pandora Tomorrow/Chaos Theory period.
The other cast members currently confirmed for the series are Janet Varney as Anna “Grim” Grímsdóttir, Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Zinnia McKenna, and Joel Oulette as Thunder. John Wick co-creator Derek Kolstad is the head writer and producer for Deathwatch, and the animation was provided by Sun Creature Studio and Fost.
Unfortunately, this may be the only Splinter Cell adaptation on the horizon. A live-action movie was in development for several years before the project was canceled last year. The most recent adaptation was a BBC Radio play called Splinter Cell: Firewall, which featured Andonis Anthony as Fisher.
Ubisoft announced a Splinter Cell remake in 2022, but hasn’t yet set a release date. The publisher also recently added Steam achievements to Splinter Cell: Blacklist, which was released in 2013.
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