Splinter Cell Netflix Series Details: Episode Length, Animation and More

The future of Netflix is animated, in case you haven’t been paying attention. From Tomb Raider and Kong: Skull Island to Resident Evil, Final Fantasy and Assassin’s Creed, if Netflix gets its hands on well-known IP, you can bet it’ll get the animated treatment at some point, just like two of the world’s biggest franchises -- Fast & Furious: Spy Races and Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. One of Netflix’s highest-profile animated projects is a Splinter Cell series, based on the popular Tom Clancy video game from Ubisoft. The show was announced last summer with John Wick creator Derek Kolstad writing the script, and in a new interview with Collider tied to the upcoming release of Kolstad’s latest action movie Nobody, the scribe shed some light on his plans for Sam Fisher, the former U.S. Navy SEAL who’s recruited by the NSA to work for agency’s mysterious Third Echelon division. “The first [season] is officially greenlit, and it’ll be eight episodes. And the bible for that I’m finishing up and sending off,“ sa