'Splinter Cell' will feature Tom Hardy as he gears up to play a younger Sam Fisher. The live-action video game adaptation is currently undergoing script revisions under a new writer.

It is unclear how much of the video games will hold as basis for the upcoming film but Tom Hardy has signed on to play a younger version of the main protagonist Sam Fisher. According to Slash Film, Hardy's character is a highly trained black-ops agent of a fictional top-secret organization called the Third Echelon. He was the first person to be recruited for the organization's highly covert Splinter Cell program. In the games Fisher is a little older, already a decorated CIA veteran with greying dark brown hair.

According to Deadline, actor/writer Frank John Hughes was tagged to pen the next draft for the upcoming film adapted on Tom Clancy's award-winning stealth video game series for game developer Ubisoft. Hughes is best known for his recurring roles in popular television series including 'Band of Brothers', 'The Sopranos', and '24'.He also recently adapted for the big screen the science-fiction novel 'Shovel Ready' for Warner Bros.

Previous drafts of the screenplay for 'Splinter Cell' were prepared by writers Eric Warren Singer of 'American Hustle' fame and Sheldon Turner of 'X-Men: First Class' and award-winning 'Up in The Air', according to Screen Rant.

It was reported that the screenplay already underwent several revisions perhaps because Ubisoft is taking the time to come up with a well-thought out script to avoid the 'good video game, bad movie' stereotype.

Doug Liman was originally identified as the film's director but backed out of the project early this year. He foresaw the portrayal of a younger Sam Fisher without much of his 'signature gadgetry'. Joseph Kahn is rumored to take his place although no official announcement has been made just yet.

'Splinter Cell' is scheduled for tentative release sometime in 2017. It is based off the action-adventure games of the same name first released in 2002 and soon adapted into novels. Through the years, the series claimed critical and commercial success making it one of Ubisoft's leading franchises. This is not the only cinematic project for the huge game developer. It is also working on a live-action adaptation of its other flagship series 'Assassin's Creed'.