‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ Teaser Confirms Liev Schreiber As Sam Fisher In Netflix Animated Series

Netflix has dropped the first teaser for Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, an animated series adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell video game created by Ubisoft. It confirms the casting of Liev Schreiber as the voice of Sam Fisher, Clancy’s iconic stealth specialist. The clip was released today during Netflix’s Geeked Week event in Atlanta. You can watch it above.

Splinter Cell follows Fisher, a black ops agent working for a U.S. government division called the Fourth Echelon.

In the first look at the upcoming series, a pair of goggles sinks in water and flowers are placed on the coffin of a man named Douglas Shetland. The words “Beloved Father” are inscribed on the wooden casket, and Fisher narrates, “Once you get used to the shadows, you see bad people for who they really are. And they’ll never see you coming for them.” 

The first Splinter Cell video game was released in 2002. A series of tie-in novels following Fisher on his missions as a black ops agent were published in the mid 2000s. 

The series comes from Ubisoft Film & Television and animation studios Sun Creature and Fost. It’s directed by Guillaume Dousse and Félicien Colmet-Daage. Derek Kolstad (John Wick) serves as head writer. The executive producers are Kolstad and Hélène Juguet, Hugo Revon, and Gérard Guillemot for Ubisoft.