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DreamWorks Acquiring Splinter Cell Rights
Source: Variety
August 12, 2005


DreamWorks is close to acquiring the film rights to Tom Clancy's videogame Splinter Cell, with Daniel Pyne (The Manchurian Candidate) attached to write the script, says Variety.

The studio would take the project over from Paramount, where it was originally set up last winter. Michael Ovitz, Clancy's longtime manager, is still producing.

Splinter Cell, now in its third edition, follows the adventures of government spy Sam Fisher as he's dispatched to infiltrate an international terrorist syndicate and stop a high-tech threat.

Clancy and Yves Guillemot, chief of videgame publisher Ubisoft, are executive producing.

 

[bycha]

Wow, major move. Who's best for Fisher's part? George Clooney? No chance for Ironside obviously...

 

[Borys]

A black-haired Matt Damon? He did a great agent in Bourne films.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Tom Cruise is... Max Fisher... or Sam Fisher... or whatever

 

[Razoric]

Vin Diesel

 

[gollumsluvslave]

George Clooney

About the only person I could imagine playing Sam really...

 

[Prine]

Hope the story isnt as forgettable as the 3 splintercell stories we've been exposed to

 

[FortNinety]

No Uwe? Awww.... I really wanted to see the guy who played Al Bundy as Sam Fisher.

 

[Frank the Great]

Why would anyone want to make a Splinter Cell movie? The stories were all lame as hell, and the characters aren't interesting at all.

 

[shpankey]

I vote for David Wenham

 

[AB 101]

I vote for Eric Bana.

 

[karlikk]

About the only person I could imagine playing Sam really...

Ditto

But Ed O'neil (Al Bundy) as sam... damn, that's a great idea :lol

 

[bishoptl]

As much as I like Clooney's look for a live-action Sam, I dunno...Damon's too young plus he has the whole Bourne thing going on, I doubt he'd want to play another SUPASPY.

Hell, give it to Tom Cruise!

 

[Master Z]

Here's hoping David Pyne can breathe some life into Splinter Cell's otherwise unintersting plotlines and characters. The MGS universe is alot more interesting for a film... but I'm glad they're not making a Metal Gear movie...

Spoiler

Until Kojima reads my script and makes me the director!

 

[Wario64]

Why would anyone want to make a Splinter Cell movie? The stories were all lame as hell, and the characters aren't interesting at all.

agreed. there was a story in splinter cell? cause i sure as hell wasn't interested. the cnn-type cutscenes didnt help either

 

[ready4Action]

I have never seen a movie based on a video game turn out right

 

[siamesedreamer]

I really wish Clancy would have written the book instead of that no-name guy. I wonder if the movie will be based on the book?

Also, I picture Fisher being taller than Damon.

 

[DarienA]

Any chance we could just get a big budget production of Splinter Cell Co-Op Theater?

 

[bycha]

Why would anyone want to make a Splinter Cell movie? The stories were all lame as hell, and the characters aren't interesting at all.

No story, but characters -- yes. Good characters and good dialogues.

 

[ronito]

Yes! I've always wanted to see a movie about hiding in the dark and trial and error.

 

[ram]

DreamWorks is close to acquiring the film rights to Tom Clancy's videogame Splinter Cell, with Daniel Pyne (The Manchurian Candidate) attached to write the script, says Variety.

uoh - the manchurian candidate was a bad movie and really boring.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Clooney's got the look and the sarcastic attitude. They'd better at least try to cast someone in that age group.

 

[BirdySky]

uoh - the manchurian candidate was a bad movie and really boring.

You are so wrong, that to describe how wrong you are, would require a machine of such power, it would be equaled only by the sun in the amount of raw nuclear waste it would produce every second. That's how wrong you are.

But Splinter Cell? The game's ok, but the stories are simply not stories..They're a bunch of levels tied together by a bunch of words that reasemble conversations between a bunch of moody idiots with no mystery to them. Kind of like me only I prefer the ak-47.

But as long as they just use the basic characters for it, it'll be ok.

For Sam Fisher, it has to be.. Kiefer Sutherland. Jack Fisher. I mean Sam Buer.


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[IntestineBoy]

I don't have to pop it in right now, but on Chaos Theory, there's a teaser trailer for a movie, but does it say which studio is behind it?

 

[radioheadrule83]

I really wish Clancy would have written the book instead of that no-name guy. I wonder if the movie will be based on the book?

Also, I picture Fisher being taller than Damon.

David Michaels is just a pseudonym. His real name is Raymond Benson, and he was picked because the Tom Clancy publisher had picked up his James Bond novels in the US.

He's already confirmed that he's not involved in writing the film, but his name has appeared on IMDB. He's said he may write the novelisation of the film though.

It could be good, and I hope it is -- but I have ZERO expectations.
There's potential in the Third Echelon story. An American cell that is exempt from the law in order to achieve protection of US interests? They could really go to town on a Mission Impossible esque corruption angle. What about foreign equivilent groups? What would be at the centre of Sam's struggle in the movie? What's the initial problem? The bigger threat? -- plus Fisher and his support team are reasonably likable.

 

[Community Forum]

Here's what they need to do. Clooney plays Sam Fisher, and Ironside does the voiceovers!

Random Fact: Clooney was the star of the very first DreamWorks movie, The Peacemaker.

 

[shuri]

I think the political stuff was a bit over the head of some gaffers, I really liked the story of the sc games.

 

[Porridge]

Can someone explain to me why Ironside wouldn't take the live action Sam Fisher role? Yeah the guy's old, but... stunt doubles? C'mon, it could work

 

[Wafflecopter]

The Manchurian Candidate...boring? Wow........That's your opinion, but damn I found the movie to be interesting and entertaining.

 

[Animal]

Anderson Cooper from CNN would make an excellent Sam Fisher if you ask me.

 

[Wafflecopter]

LMAO Anderson Cooper. I think the original casting idea of Thomas Jane would be choice. Eric Bana was rumored recently, and I think that would be a good choice as well.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Thomas Jane has already burned all his bridges with The Punisher.

Dolph Lundgren 4 eva! :E

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

The suggestiong of George Clooney or Kiefer Sutherland sound ace.

 

[Wafflecopter]

Thomas Jane has already burned all his bridges with The Punisher.

Dolph Lundgren 4 eva! :E

:lol

Seriously though, watch Stander. Not even The Punisher could sully the greatness of his performance in Stander.