Netflix has reportedly renewed its new animated series “Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch,” the order for a second season coming just one day after the show was released on the service.
The news isn’t that surprising as initial reports when the show was first announced back in 2020 was that it was for a two-season order, though both Netflix and the makers of the series have been playing it coy in interviews when asked about a second season.
The adult animated spy thriller series hails from “John Wick” franchise creator Derek Kolstad. Animation is being provided by the Danish/French Sun Creature Studio and French studio Fost.
Liev Schreiber leads the cast as Sam Fisher, a field commander of Fourth Echelon – a high stakes covert unit of the U.S. government that specializes in counter-terrorism stealth operations.
Fisher is drawn out of retirement when a young operative seeks his guidance, pulling him into a complicated world of espionage, betrayal and dangerous missions in a series exploring the personal costs of living and working in a world of thorny moral ambiguity.
Also starring are Janet Varney as Fourth Echelon’s tech ops officer Anna ‘Grim’ Grímsdóttir, Kirby Howell-Baptiste as new agent Zinnia McKenna, and Joel Oulette as Thunder.
The show is executive produced by Helene Juguet, Hugo Revon and Gerard Guillemot with Guillaume Dousse and Félicien Colmet-Daage serving as directors.
Source: Netflix
