Netflix Ropes in John Wick Screenplay Writer for Upcoming Animated Splinter Cell Television Series

A lot of times, the world of entertainment and gaming have joined hands to create masterpieces. According to reports, fans will be seeing an animated television show of Ubisoft’s stealth video game Splinter Cell. The show will air on the online streaming platform Netflix.

According to reports, Netflix has hired David Kolstad for the role of the showrunner for an adaption of Splinter Cell in an anime series. Kolstad has been the screenwriter for the John Wick film franchise. The American screenwriter and film producer have also written the script for a video game John Wick: Chronicles. Kolstad was also involved in the creation of the John Wick comic book series.

A Splinter Cell Movie in the Pipeline?

According to reports, the show has already got a green light for the second season, and it will have a run of 16 episodes. There are also plans to adapt Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell into a feature film but there is no idea about when things are going to take off. However, fans loved Michael Ironside’s voiceover of Sam Fisher, the leading black ops soldier character in Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell. Ironside is more than 65 years old now and he can’t play the role of a black ops soldier in the live-action film.

According to reports, Dark Knight Rises fame Tom Hardy was roped in to be a part of the Splinter Cell movie in the year 2012. But there is no clarity of when the makers plan on starting the shoot. There is a possibility that the plans to make the film might get shelved because of the box office failure of Assassin’s Creed live-action film starring Michael Fassbender.

A Master at Writing Action-Packed Screenplays

Since David Kolstad is known for writing an action-packed screenplay, ardent fans can expect the same in the upcoming animated Splinter Cell television show. It will also be exciting to see how Kolstad applies his skills in creating an animated series instead of a live-action film. The screenwriter will also serve as an executive producer on the show.

There are further reports that David Kolstad might also write and produce a live-action adaption of the popular Hitman franchise.

Splinter Cell: An Award-Winning Game Series

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell is an award-winning game series. It was first released in 2002. The game’s story revolves around Sam Fisher, a highly-trained soldier of a fictional black-ops’ unit within the NSA (National Security Agency). The black-ops group is called Third Echelon.

It is considered to be Ubisoft’s flagship franchises because of the immense popularity the game enjoys in the gaming world.

Splinter Cell: The Game with a Plot to Defeat Terrorists

The first Splinter Cell game was developed for platforms such as GameCube, Microsoft Window, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, Mac. It was inspired by the Metal Gear series and went on to use an Unreal Engine 2 (game engine developed by Epic Games) that was modified in a way to allow players to experience light-and-dark based gameplay.

The first three games of Splinter Cell dealt with terrorists planning attacks using information warfare. Sam Fisher’s role is to stop this from happening. The mission objectives range from collecting information or eliminating terrorists. The most recent game Blacklist saw Sam Fisher as the commander of a new unit Fourth Echelon, tasked to stop the Blacklist attacks.

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