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[IbizaPocholo]

Ubisoft will revive Driver as a live-action TV series

The much-missed Driver is being retooled as a live-action TV show, Ubisoft has announced.

www.eurogamer.net

Tanner returns in the new Driver TV show, which apparently sees him try to take down a local crime syndicate.

Unexpectedly, this series is in production not for Netflix or Amazon Prime but a new streaming service named Binge. The platform has not yet launched but was apparently mentioned at some point during this year's online E3 2021.

There's no word on when Driver will surface, but Binge's website states it has a roadmap to launch in 2022.

 

[junguler]

the should call it tom clancy's driver.

 

[Guilty_AI]

 

[YukiOnna]

Today had a lot of news, but this was the wildest one.

 

[SJRB]

Should've called it


XD river

 

[GHG]

Honestly what's going on with these dumbass publishers at the moment?

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Game announcement in 3...2...

 

[jaysius]

Statham or bust.

 

[AJUMP23]

Already been done.

 

[Killer8]

San Francisco was a legitimately good game so to see what's become of this franchise is saddening.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Evolution of DRIVER Games 1999-2015
Includes Gameplay From ALL Driver Video Games

All DRIVER Games in the Evolution:
0:00 Driver: You Are the Wheelman (1999) - PlayStation 1
0:37 Driver (2000) - Game Boy Color
1:05 Driver 2: Back on the Streets (2000) - PlayStation 1
1:43 Driver 2 Advance (2002) - Game Boy Advance
2:15 Driver 3 (2004) - PlayStation 2, Xbox & PC
3:25 Driver 3 (2005) - Game Boy Advance
3:57 Driver: Parallel Lines (2006) - PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC & Wii
4:52 Driver: Vegas (2006) - Mobile
5:06 Driver L.A. Undercover (2007) - Mobile
5:33 Driver 76 (2007) - PlayStation Portable
6:16 Driver: Renegade 3D (2011) - 3DS
6:48 Driver: San Francisco (2011) - PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii & PC
7:57 Driver: Speedboat Paradise (2015) - iOS & Android

The game footage from every DRIVER game is focused on car driving gameplay, free-roaming, racing, fighting.etc

 

[Unknown?]

So many good memories of Driver 2. This is one series that should translate very well to TV.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Considering the direction they went with the recent Rainbow Six game, I can imagine this one having fucking Bigfoot in it as a wise-cracking side-kick.

 

[LordCBH]

Driver : a Ubisoft Original

(fuck off Ubisoft. Just fuck off.)

 

[Javthusiast]

Why make a good game, if you can create a shitty show based on a paper thin game series story wise.

 

[Aion002]

Ubi on older fans:

 

[ShaikhCroft]

Still waiting on that Splinter Cell movie lol!

 

[Great Hair]

Tom Holland plays the protagonist, Marky Mark makes the car sounds and Will Smith a male hooker.

 

[bitbydeath]

Uh oh, Rupert Murdoch will not be happy.
Binge already exists as a streaming service in Australia, it’s the remnants of Fox Studios.

 

[Markio128]

 

[IbizaPocholo]

While games like Need for Speed and Forza Horizon have continued to exert their influences in today’s gaming landscape, franchises such as the likes of Driver have found themselves lying in a dusty old garage for far too long at this point. Once a juggernaut of the action driving format, Driver has largely been forgotten today – which begs the question, what the hell actually happened to Driver?