Hitman Filming Begins
Filming has begun on the film adaptation of the Hitman series. Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood) will star as the dreaded bald 'Hitman,' Agent 47 with the antagonist being Dougray Scott (Mission: Impossible II, Desperate Housewives). Other stars in the film include Olga Kurylenko (Paris je t’aime), Robert Knepper (Prison Break), Ulrich Thomsen (Festen) and Michael Offei (Casino Royale). The movie will be "directed Xavier Gens from a screenplay by Skip Woods (Swordfish) and produced by Luc Besson, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Adrian Askarieh and Charles Gordon with Daniel Alter as a co-producer." Hmmm, Swordfish...more like Stinkfish!
I am, unfortunately, only familiar with one actor, Timothy Olyphant...the rest, well, I've never heard of them. Hitman was an interesting game and I didn't really like it until the second installment came out...Contracts was OK and I've yet to play Blood Money. Who's interested in this film or does anybody even care and just assumes it'll be another crapfest?
Press release after the jump.
Production starts on HITMAN movie
Eidos Interactive, one of the world’s leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, can confirm that production on the HITMAN movie has begun.
Filming commenced on March 27 and will continue in and around the Bulgarian capital of Sofia for 12 weeks before moving on to locations in South Africa, St. Petersburg and London. Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood, Die Hard 4.0) stars as the world’s deadliest assassin and Dougray Scott (Mission: Impossible II, Desperate Housewives) portrays the antagonist. Olga Kurylenko (Paris je t’aime), Robert Knepper (Prison Break), Ulrich Thomsen (Festen) and Michael Offei (Casino Royale) also have joined the cast of the videogame adaptation.
The game's story centers around an international assassin known only as Agent 47 (Olyphant) who works for a mysterious organization dubbed the Agency. The Hitman videogames have sold in excess of 6 million units worldwide, with the most recent instalment, Hitman: Blood Money™ selling 1.4 million units worldwide and reaching No.1 in all key territories.
The movie is being directed by Xavier Gens from a screenplay by Skip Woods (Swordfish) and produced by Luc Besson, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Adrian Askarieh and Charles Gordon with Daniel Alter as a co-producer.
The film will be released in France through EuropaCorp Distribution and in the rest of the world through Twentieth Century Fox, a division of Fox Filmed Entertainment.
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Posted to Movies-DVDs, Video Games on 3 April 2007
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Never heard of Luc Besson?
Really?
I want Agent 47 as my guy! Probably can't afford his payment. Plus I think if he wasn't a hitman he'd be a monk.
C'mon!!!! Never heard of Dougray Scott???? Do you live on a shell? A tupperware??? And you live on Gay Castle???? He's the prince fomr Ever After!!!! He's Drew Barrymore's Prince!!!!!
He's the bad guy form M:I II!!!! Sexy guy... and now he's dating Susan MAyer on one of the gayest tv shows ever!! Desperate!!!!
C.'mon!!!!!!
Just because Luc Besson is producing it doesn't mean it'll be good. But it does raise my hopes, just a bit.