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'Splinter Cell' Anime Series Set at Netflix (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety

Netflix and Ubisoft have teamed for an anime series adaptation of the video game “Splinter Cell”, Variety has learned.

Derek Kolstad, best known for his work writing the “John Wick” film franchise, will serve as writer and executive producer on the series. According to sources, the series has received a two-season, 16 episode order at the streaming service.

Netflix, Ubisoft, and reps for Kolstad declined to comment on the specifics of the deal

 

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'Splinter Cell' Netflix Series Writer Derek Kolstad Reveals New Details, Including Episode Length

 

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Might as well make a Metal Gear Solid anime next because that movie is never happening.

 

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Might as well make a Metal Gear Solid anime next because that movie is never happening.

Or just make it an animated movie because we need to further set up Super Smash Bros.

 

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Kind of bummed Netflix didn’t bring Ironside back, but Liev sounds good!

 

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Tom Clancy’s ‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’: Fans Go Wild For Clips Of Netflix Animated Series At Annecy As Creative Team Detail Inspirations Ranging From Michael Mann To Satoshi Kon To Tom Cruise

'Splinter Cell: Deathwatch' clips were shown at Annecy of Netflix show as the Ubisoft team detailed inspiration from Tom Cruise to Michael Mann.

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Just in time for the upcoming videogame.

 

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Trailer coming Thursday.

 

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I think that Schreiber can win me over in time, based on this, even though Michael Ironside's voice for Sam Fisher is a hard act to follow.

I dropped off of the series after Chaos Theory. Has it still been Ironside this entire time?

 

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Splinter Cell: Deathwatch: New Trailer, Poster and Voice Cast Revealed - IGN

Netflix revealed the teaser trailer and more voice cast members for its upcoming animated series Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch at Anime NYC on Thursday. Liev Schreiber voices Sam Fisher.

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In addition to Liev Schreiber as Sam Fisher, the voice cast includes Kirby (The Sandman) as Zinnia McKenna, Janet Varney (The Legend of Korra) as Anna Grimsdottir, and Joel Oulette (Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender series) as Thunder.

 

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Splinter Cell: Deathwatch - Exclusive Trailer for the Netflix Animated Series - IGN

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch showrunner Derek Kolstad told IGN: "With an adaptation, especially when it's the first time in this medium, you have to rip the spine out of the source material, Keep the brain and the heart, entertain the soul, and do your best to actually build it into something that...

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How Netflix’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Ties into the Video Games - IGN

Netflix's upcoming animated series, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, “follows the timeline and characters set by the mainline games.”

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I got even more optimistic when I saw the first trailer. For me, Fisher will always be iconically voiced by the great Michael Ironside (I still hold his absence in Blacklist against that otherwise phenomenal game), but if the veteran actor is done with the role, then casting Liev Schreiber in his place seems like a fantastic way to go. “I loved [Ironside],” Kolstad told IGN in our recent Splinter Cell: Blackwatch digital cover story. “But ultimately it was like, ‘If we're going to be doing this for a while, they just wanted a new sound.’ And when they were going through the various voices, any number of people were up for the role.” But the teaser trailer showed us a Sam that wasn’t middle-aged anymore. No, he’s Old Man Sam now. “It's been done before in Old Mad Logan, but in many respects, this is my Unforgiven,” Kolstad said. “This is the ‘one last job’ from the old '70s thrillers, and it was a joy, man.” And thus my Splinter Cell superfan brain went straight to: “So wait…is this canon to the games?”

Longtime-Fisher-ally-turned-archnemesis Douglas Shetland, a key piece of Chaos Theory’s narrative puzzle, is a major factor in the events of Season One, decades after his death.
I got my answer straight from Ubisoft: yes, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is canon to the six-game series (OK, seven if you count the PSP’s Splinter Cell Essentials which, yes, I reviewed for PSM Magazine). A Ubisoft spokesperson told me “it follows the timeline and characters set by the mainline games.” However, “while Deathwatch respects the source material, some creative liberties were taken with certain events for television.” What this means in a spoiler-free way – as you might’ve guessed, I’m reviewing Deathwatch – is that certain key story events from the games had their journey, but not their destination, changed. In other words, same outcome, but different path to get there. “Even though we have elements of that game referenced there, it's hopefully small enough and the changes therein minute enough [that fans won’t be upset],” Kolstad said. One could argue that it’s been so long since any of the games released that even the most die-hard Splinter Cell fan who watches Deathwatch won’t remember the particular details of certain incidents. But, I suppose, that will be up to my fellow superfans to decide.

 

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