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The Driver TV series is dead, but other “exciting projects” are in the worksAccording to Ubisoft
According to Ubisoft
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The Driver TV series you forgot was happening isn’t happening. Announced back in 2021 and initially due to arrive alongside a gamer-focused streaming service called Binge in 2022, the live action series has been scrapped along with the production company behind it.
Perhaps of greater significance is that the Driver series itself might not be dead, as a Ubisoft spokesperson said that they are “actively working on other exciting projects related to the franchise”.
There hasn’t been a video game in the series sinceDriver: San Franciscoback in 2011. It’s one ofthoseseven-out-of-tens: you once again take control of racing driver-turned-cop, Tanner, only now he’s in a coma and has the ability to magically possess drivers of different vehicles around an open world city. It’s got light and frothy mission design, oodles of character delivered via NPC dialogue, and floaty-coma-man is a better solution to Driver’s literal and figurative design dead-ends than having Tanner be able to walk.
Does “actively working on other exciting projects” mean Ubisoft is making a Driver video game? No. (Does Ubisoft actively making a video game mean they’ll ever release it? Also no.) They could be making a pair of trainers with “Driver” written on the side, for all I know. It would be better than nothing if they were, though - and probably better than whatever Binge.com would have produced.
