The Sly Cooper Movie was to be an animated film based on the first game, Sly Cooper and the Theivius Raccoonus. The film was announced in 2014 by Rainmaker Studios through the teaser trailer featured above. The movie was slated for development after the release of Rainmaker's silver screen adaptation of the Ratchet & Clank video game series, and scheduled for release in 2016. However, for a variety of unknown reasons, development was placed on hold until June 14, 2017 when it was announced that plans for the movie had been cancelled in favor of a Sly Cooper animated television series.