Fans of the Splinter Cell video game will be in for a treat. It will now have a movie adaptation starring Tom Hardy as the lead actor.
Hardy has singed on to play Splinter Cell protagonist Sam Fisher, a ninja-like operative working for a Black-ops unit called Echelon.
Ubisoft has been quite vocal about its intent to conquer the video game movie stigma echoing companies like Marvel and taking more active control of its properties and their subsequent movie adaptations.
Watch out for more Splinter Cell movie news – as well as any new developments with Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed and Ghost Recon movie projects.
Dwayne Johnson has struck a deal to headline Hercules, an adaptation of Radical Comics’ Hercules: The Thracian Wars. The film is going to be directed by Brett Ratner and co-produced by Peter Berg (director of Hancock and Battleship).
Hercules is a far cry from Johnson’s previous forays into the sword & sandals sub-genre, with The Scorpion King and Mummy Returns. Moore and Wijaya’s comic book is renowned as a pretty faithful retelling of the Hercules mythology, picking up with the son of Zeus after he completes his famous twelve labors and becomes a mercenary interested in little more than getting paid (and wreaking bloody havoc on the battlefield).
Here is a proper description of Moore and Wijaya’s The Thracian Wars:
Nearly 3,200 years ago, a tormented soul walked the Earth as neither man nor god: Hercules, powerful son of the god-king Zeus, and for this he received nothing but suffering. After 12 arduous labors and the loss of his family, this dark, world-weary soul turned his back on the gods, finding solace only in bloody battle. Over the years, he warmed to the company of six similar souls, bonded by their love of fighting and the presence of death never questioning where they go or who they fight, just how much they will be paid. Now the King of Thrace has hired these mercenaries to turn his men into the greatest army of all time, which means training them to be as bloodthirsty and ruthless as their own reputation. It is time for this band of lost souls to finally have their eyes opened to how far they have fallen and the narrow, perilous path to their own redemption.
Hercules will start filming in a matter of months, so look for additional casting updates over the forthcoming weeks.
