Ubisoft confirms that is still working on “exciting projects” for the Driver series, but the TV show has been cancelled

Ubisoft
has
confirmed
that
plans
for
a
live-action
TV
show
based
on
the
classic
Driver
franchise
has
been
scrapped.
But
in
good
news,
the
company
is
still
working
on
other
projects
relating
to
Driver.

The
pertinent
information
comes
from

Stephen
Totilo
of
Game
File
who
combed
through
Ubisoft’s
recent
356-page
annual
report,
an
arduous
task
indeed.
The
article
contains
a
lot
of
intriguing
snippets
relating
to
all
sorts
of
things
such
as
generative
AI
and
even
how
many
teenagers
Ubisoft
employs.
(14,
apparently,
which
is
down
from
17
the
year
before.)

According
to
Totilo,
Ubisoft
has
ditched
plans
to
create
a
live-action
Driver.
A
deal
was
signed
with
streaming-newcomer
Binge
back
in
2021
to
create
a
live-action
version
of
Driver.

“Working
with
Binge
will
allow
us
to
bring
a
Driver
series
directly
to
the
audience
who
is
most
passionate
about
seeing
this
franchise
come
to
life.”

said
Allan
Ungar
for
Binge
at
the
time.

Since
then,
no
Driver
tv
show
has
come
sliding
onto
our
screens.

Stephen
Totilo
noted
that
in
the
documents a
Ubisoft
subsidiary
by
the
name
of
Hotrod
Tanner
LLC,
named
after
Driver
protagonist
Tanner,
had
been
closed.

“We
are
no
longer
moving
forward
with
our
partnership
with
Binge
for
a
Driver
series,”
a
Ubisoft
spokesperson
told
Totilo.

“We
are
actively
working
on
other
exciting
projects
related
to
the
franchise
and
can’t
wait
to
share
more
information
in
the
future,”
added
Ubisoft.

Exactly
what
that
means
is,
of
course,
open
for
speculation.
There
hasn’t
been
a
new
entry
in
the
Driver
series
for
over
a
decade,
the
last
one
being
Driver:
San
Franciso
in
2011
which
was
a
weird
but
actually
quite
enjoyable
spin
on
the
series
where
players
could
possess
cars.
No,
I’m
not
making
that
up.
Well,
to
be
fair,
you
possessed
the
people
driving
the
cars
rather
than
the
cars
themselves,
but
still.