The Splinter Cell movie, starring Tom Hardy as Sam Fisher, has brought on a new writer as its August start date for production nears.
The Splinter Cell movie is ever approaching with its 2015 target inching closer and closer, and New Regency and Ubisoft are gunning for it with a new drafted screenplay to be written by Sheldon Turner.
As reported in Deadline, the scribe of Universal Pictures and Baltasar Kormakur’s Everest has been tapped to adapt the long-running game franchise to film after the most recent draft was turned in by American Hustle’s Oscar-nominated co-writer, Eric Warren Singer. This development comes as the film marches closer to its start of principal photography in August.
Splinter Cell is directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) and is set to star Tom Hardy in the role of Sam Fisher, a superspy of the NSA’s “Third Echelon” black-ops subdivision. Fisher most recently appeared in Splinter Cell: Blacklist, which did not meat Ubisoft expectations in sales despite its refreshingly espionage-focused gameplay. This movie might be the shot of adrenaline Ubisoft is looking for with this franchise.
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