Tom Hardy Gets The Lead In 'Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell'

Tom Hardy will star as Sam Fisher, in 'Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell,' film adaptation that Eric Warren Singer ('The International') will write for the screen.

The project is the second major movie based on one of its properties that Ubisoft is looking to get on the bigscreen after setting up "Assassin's Creed" at New Regency and Fox, that Michael Fassbender will co-produce and headline.

Hardy will play Sam Fisher, a highly-trained special operative in a fictional black-ops operation called Echelon.