Netflix's Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Animated Series Arrives On October 14

Ubisoft still isn’t giving america a caller Splinter Cell game, but Sam Fisher fans are astatine slightest getting an animated TV adjustment very soon. At this week’s Anime NYC convention, Netflix revealed a caller teaser trailer for nan upcoming Splinter Cell: Deathwatch and confirmed that nan bid will travel to nan work connected October 14.

Written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad and starring Liev Schreiber arsenic an older — but still decidedly badass — Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch was first announced backmost successful 2020, but we hadn’t learned overmuch much until now. In nan little trailer, we spot nan National Security Agency’s astir reliable stealth operative doing a adjacent spot of his trademark sneaking astir successful nan shadows, aft returning to nan section for what he calls a "personal" mission. I besides rather for illustration really liberally nan iconic Splinter Cell nighttime imagination goggles sound is utilized successful nan trailer.

The sound formed besides includes The Sandman’s Kirby Howell-Baptise arsenic Zinnia McKenna, an original character, and Janet Garvey arsenic Anna Grimsdottir, a chap supplier who provided tech support to Fisher successful nan Splinter Cell games. The trailer itself doesn’t springiness overmuch distant astir nan plot, but we do spot nan sedate of Douglas Shetland, a adjacent friend of Fisher who he was ordered to destruct successful instrumentality favourite crippled entry, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

Ubisoft is doing immoderate absorbing things successful nan big animation space. The wholly bonkers Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix reimagined Rayman arsenic a foul-mouthed TV big and is littered pinch heavy trim Ubisoft references. And somewhat inevitably, an animated Assassin’s Creed show is besides currently successful development, though we don’t person a day for that 1 yet.