Short answers, pulled from the story.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a series of stealth action-adventure video games first released in 2002 by Ubisoft. The main character is Sam Fisher, a highly trained operative of Third Echelon, a secret sub-division of the NSA. The characters and the Third Echelon organization were created by J. T. Petty.
The Splinter Cell series had sold 9.6 million units by the end of 2004-19 million by May 2008, and over 32 million as of 2016.
There are six main Splinter Cell games: Splinter Cell (2002), Pandora Tomorrow (2004), Chaos Theory (2005), Double Agent (2006), Conviction (2010), and Blacklist (2013). A PlayStation Portable exclusive called Essentials was released in 2006, and a remastered compilation of the first three games was released for PlayStation 3 in 2011. A remake of the first game is in development.
Tom Hardy was cast as Sam Fisher in November 2012, with Eric Warren Singer as screenwriter. Doug Liman directed before stepping down in April 2015. On the 15th of November 2024, the film was officially cancelled due to difficulties meeting the desired standards for script and budget.
Yes. An animated series called Splinter Cell: Deathwatch premiered on Netflix on the 14th of October 2025. It was produced by Ubisoft Film and Television with John Wick writer Derek Kolstad as executive producer, and animation by Sun Creature Studio and Fost. A second season is in production.
Nine Splinter Cell novels have been published. The first seven were written under the shared pseudonym David Michaels by authors including Raymond Benson, Grant Blackwood, and Peter Telep. The eighth novel, Aftermath (2013), was the first to drop that pseudonym. James Swallow wrote the final two, Firewall (2022) and Dragonfire (2023).