Tom Hardy Joins Adaptation of Tom Clancy’s ‘Splinter Cell’ Video Game

This past summer, studios were said to be battling over the rights to Ubisoft’s popular video game franchise Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. However, the property still hasn’t found a studio home despite ongoing talks with Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures. But the project just gained a huge amount of steam today as Variety report Tom Hardy has signed on to star in the adaptation with The International writer Eric Warren Singer scripting. The film will have Hardy playing Sam Fisher highly-trained special operative in a fictional black-ops operation called Echelon. It definitely sounds better than his action in This Means War. In the video game, Fisher is aided by trifocal goggles which use both night vision and thermal readings, allowing him to see in the dark. It’s just one of the many tools and skills Fisher has at his disposal to bring down the bad guys. Ubisoft is quickly getting their …