First Teaser for ‘Splinter Cell: Deathwatch’ Anime with Liev Schreiber
by Alex Billington
August 22, 2025
Source: YouTube
“This mission is personal. Netflix has unveiled a first look teaser trailer for their upcoming series Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, another anime offering from Netflix. This was debuted at the Anime NYC convention this week, and will be streaming on Netflix in October this fall. In this first-ever adaptation of the acclaimed stealth video game Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, legendary secret agent Sam Fisher is drawn back in when a wounded young operative seeks out his help. It’s produced by Ubisoft, in partnership with Derek Kolstad (creator of John Wick and Nobody), Sun Creature and Fost. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell is originally a series of stealth action-adventure video games, the first of which was released in 2002, and their tie-in novels that were endorsed by Tom Clancy. The series follows Sam Fisher, a highly trained agent of a fictional black-ops sub-division within the NSA, dubbed “Third Echelon”, as he confronts many adversaries. Liev Schreiber voices Sam Fisher, and Kirby Howell-Baptiste voices Zinnia McKenna in this anime series. As cool as it is to see them adapting this, the footage does not look that exciting yet. Just a generic spy action thriller… huh.
Here’s the first teaser trailer for Ubisoft’s animated series Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, from YouTube:
Splinter Cell follows Fisher, a black ops agent working for a US government division called the Fourth Echelon. Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is an animated adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, the award-winning series of espionage video games created by Ubisoft. The first 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. Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is a series created and showrun by Hollywood action writer Derek Kolstad (creator / writer of John Wick, John Wick: Chapter 2, Nobody, Nobody 2, Die Hart). With additional writing by David Daitch, Katie J. Stone, Naomi G. Davis, Anthony Florez, Fallon O’Dowd, Matias Wulff, and Joseph Mwamba. Featuring episodes directed by Guillaume Dousse and Félicien Colmet-Daage. The series is made by Ubisoft Film & Television and animation studios Sun Creature and Fost. Executive produced by Derek Kolstad, Hélène Juguet, Hugo Revon, and Gérard Guillemot for Ubisoft. Netflix will debut Splinter Cell: Deathwatch streaming on Netflix worldwide starting October 14th, 2025 this fall. Anyone want to watch it? Who’s in?
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