Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Renewed for Season 2 | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025

Sam Fisher volition return. Splinter Cell: Deathwatch creator and showrunner Derek Kolstad exclusively revealed connected the IGN Fan Fest: Fall Edition unrecorded watercourse Wednesday that the Netflix animated bid has been greenlit for a 2nd season.

“We've got a Season Two coming your way,” Kolstad announced. “We don't [have a merchandise day yet]. And being caller to animation, I cognize however agelong it takes. But we are afloat into preproduction and everyone is ace excited astir wherever we spell next.”

Given that Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Season 1 ends (no spoilers) reasonably definitively for immoderate cardinal characters, Kolstad envisions Season 2 arsenic offering “a larger-scale story” than the archetypal season.

“What I emotion astir those kinds of endings are erstwhile you instrumentality to it, usually we spot 1 of 3 ways. One, you code it close away, two, you disregard it, oregon three, it's a hybrid approach, and present it's a hybrid approach,” said Kolstad. “And what I deliberation you tin spot successful Season Two is simply a larger-scale story, but [with the same] intimacy of quality and the intimacy of action.”

“When you look astatine immoderate of my favourite enactment movies similar Die Hard With a Vengeance, a batch of worldly blows up and there's car chases and each that benignant of stuff. But the top country successful that movie is erstwhile John McClane takes connected the soiled cops successful the elevator. It's adjacent quartered, it's bloody, it's brutal, it's awesome, and we're going to person a batch of that [in Season 2].

And what astir Sam Fisher’s bully boy, Kaiju the dog, who was introduced successful Season 1?

Kolstad, the creator of John Wick who infamously killed disconnected that movie’s puppy, promised fans: “All I'll accidental astir Kaiju is helium volition beryllium harmless forever.”

IGN’s Ryan McCaffrey is simply a instrumentality of the caller series, awarding the amusement an 8 retired of 10 successful his Splinter Cell: Deathwatch review:

“We don’t get a batch much clip with Sam Fisher successful this bloody bully Splinter Cell animated series, but acknowledgment to a large crook arsenic Fisher by Liev Schreiber and a briskly paced crippled with enjoyable characters, it’s clip well-spent. If it were a book, it’d beryllium a page-turner. The half-hour episodes alert by and past it’s implicit earlier you cognize it, but it’s clip good spent with an older, grumpier mentation of our favourite secret-agent super-spy.”

All episodes of Splinter Cell: Deathwatch are present streaming connected Netflix.

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