10 Announced Movies That Mysteriously Disappeared

9. Splinter Cell

Splinter Cell Blacklist
Ubisoft

A movie adaptation of Ubisoft's stealth-oriented Splinter Cell games has been in the works for quite some time.

It was first mooted in the mid-2000s, before going dark, and then re-emerging in 2012 with Tom Hardy - fresh off the success of Inception, Warrior, and The Dark Knight Rises - attached to play lead character Sam Fisher.

From here though, things got a little messy. Multiple writers took stabs at the script, a proposed 2015 shoot date was missed entirely, and director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge Of Tomorrow) exited the project shortly after joining it.

One of the last official updates we received was in January 2017, when we learned that Hardy was in the process of approving the script, and that the movie was aiming for a PG-13 rating. But after that... dead silence.

A Splinter Cell anime series was announced in 2020, but we haven't heard anything about the movie adaptation in years. Perhaps the critical/commercial failure of 2016's Assassin's Creed flick scared Ubisoft off making this one.

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