Netflix’s apparent mission to give every single video game in the universe the TV show treatment is continuing with three newly announced animated adaptations of Ubisoft properties: Splinter Cell, Far Cry, and unforgettable Far Cry 3 expansion, Blood Dragon.
A Splinter Cell animated adaptation was first rumoured last July, but Ubisoft and Netflix have now made the show official. It’ll follows the adventures of iconic video game series protagonist Sam Fisher after he’s recruited to work for the NSA’s mysterious Echelon Division.
Expect black ops missions, stealth, and military tactics in a series that’s being written by John Wick scribe Derek Kolstad. That’s pretty much all Netflix has shared right now, other than this appropriately shadowy glimpse of Sam as he’ll appear in the show:
Captain Laserhawk unfolds in a parallel version of Earth where automation became widespread in the 1950s, causing social upheaval and mass unemployment. As 1992 arrives, massive tech company Eden promises all citizens Universal Basic Income, effectively turning itself into the economy, and quickly begins exerting social control via mass surveillance and big data.