Ubisoft has confirmed that plans for a live-action TV show based on the classic Driver series have been cancelled. But the good news is that the company is still working on other Driver-related projects.
The relevant information comes from Game File’s Stephen Totilo, who combed through Ubisoft’s most recent 356-page annual report, which is indeed a difficult task. The article contains a lot of interesting snippets about various things like generating artificial intelligence and even how many teenagers Ubisoft employs. (Apparently 14, down from 17 the year before.)
According to Totilo, Ubisoft has abandoned plans to make live-action racers. Back in 2021, we signed a deal with streaming newcomer Binge to produce a live-action version of Driver.
“Partnering with Binge will allow us to bring the Driver series directly to the audiences who are most passionate about seeing it,” Allan Ungar told Binge at the time.
Since then, there has been no Driver TV show on our screens.
Stephen Totilo noted in the filing that Ubisoft subsidiary Hotrod Tanner LLC (named after Driver protagonist Tanner) has been shut down.
A Ubisoft spokesperson told Totilo: “We will no longer continue to work with Binge on the Driver series.”
“We are actively working on other exciting projects related to the series and can’t wait to share more information in the future,” Ubisoft added.
Of course, exactly what this means is anyone’s guess. The Driver series hasn’t had a new entry in over a decade, with the last one being 2011’s Driver: San Francisco, a strange but actually quite fun series of games where players could own cars. No, I didn’t make this up. Okay, to be fair, you have the person driving the car rather than the car itself, but still.
A new game would be great, but it could also be a movie or TV show in development.
