Speaking to The Direct, producer Basil Iwanyk spoke of the Splinter Cell movie, saying "that movie would have been awesome... Just couldn't get it right, script-wise, budget-wise. But it was going to be great. We had a million different versions of it, but it was going to be hardcore and awesome. That's one of the ones that got away, which is really sad."
Hearing that there were "a million different versions of it" certainly makes it clear why a definitive version was never locked in.
Right now, the status of the Splinter Cell series as a whole is a bit up in the air. There hasn't been a new entry since 2013's Blacklist, and while a remake for the original might have been announced back in 2021, Ubisoft has been pretty quiet on it.
Ubisoft is in a spot of trouble these days too, so I'm sure it's hoping Assassin's Creed Shadows will give it the boost it quite desperately needs.
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