07/12/2012 - After Assassin's Creed, the French video game group again joins forces with the American company for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the cinematic production division of the French video game group, has signed a second co-production agreement with the Americans from New Regency to adapt two of the most well-known franchises to "gamers" to the big screen. After Assassin's Creed, whose big screen version is to star German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender (photo - Hunger [+see also:
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British actor Tom Hardy (Bronson [+see also:
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The worldwide success of both games, Assassin's Creed (40 million copies sold) and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (22 million), make for very solid arguments in favour of the films they are to inspire. Both will be action films, as the first centres of a man who has to travel in time in the skin of a professional hit man, while the second centres on an expert in secret, notably anti-terrorist, special operations.

(Translated from French)