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The Splinter Cell remake we had been promised three years in the past remains to be nowhere to be seen, however Sam Fisher is making a comeback of kinds on Netflix, in a brand new animated sequence known as Deathwatch.
There’s not a lot to see, actually. Sam Fisher, now rocking a grandfatherly beard, is sinking within the drink, though he appears remarkably unfussed by the scenario. The flashback to the funeral of his outdated pal Doug Shetland, although, suggests he could also be subconsciously grappling with remorse, for causes I cannot spoil right here.
Regardless of the dearth of knowledge within the trailer, there’s one little little bit of it I take situation with:
As a result of no. No, he isn’t. Liev Schreiber is a good actor, looks as if a cool man, however Michael Ironside is Sam Fisher.
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The gravel. The gravitas. Ironside remains to be so excellent, which makes Schreiber’s casting all of the stranger. This is not a kind of conditions the place the sport character’s actor primarily does videoGame work, and due to this fact would not slot in an animated challenge. Ironside was a Hollywood veteran lengthy earlier than turning into Sam Fisher, taking part in memorable roles in movies like High Gun, Complete Recall, and Starship Troopers.
And, for the report, Michael Ironside remains to be alive and nonetheless energetic. You would possibly recall that he needed to step away from appearing for a time whereas battling most cancers, which is why he could not return for 2013’s Splinter Cell Blacklist, however he did reprise the function in Ghost Recon Wildlands later.
Which leads me to marvel, why did Ubisoft not decide to deliver him again for Deathwatch? I suppose Schreiber may be extra recognizable to mainstream audiences, however he isn’t precisely a family identify; neither is Ironside, honest sufficient (though a small however insistent a part of me needs to argue that sure he’s), however I really feel like his presence would no less than hearth up the long-suffering Splinter Cell fan base, which might in itself be an attention-getting win for the sequence.
It is doable I am being bizarre about this, but it surely additionally makes me fear that Ironside will even be excluded from the Splinter Cell remake, assuming it ever truly occurs. That might be a way more critical transgression. For now, I am calming myself by assuming that Ironside did not do the Netflix sequence as a result of he is too busy engaged on the following recreation. That is sensible, proper?
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is being co-directed by Guillaume Dousse and Félicien Colmet-Daage, whereas Derek Kolstad, who wrote the unique John Wick, is serving as head author and co-executive producer, together with Helene Juguet, Hugo Revon and Gerard Guillemot. A launch date hasn’t been introduced, but it surely’s “coming quickly.”
I’ve reached out to Netflix and Ubisoft to ask about this egregious Ironside oversight, and can replace if I obtain a reply.
