Saturday November 10, 2007 1:20 am
‘Hitman’ Video Game Comes to Big Screen
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: 20th Century Fox, Action, Adaptation, Casting, Upcoming Releases,
It’s been done with Broadway plays, popular novels, comic books…even commercials. It’s adaptation, and it helps Hollywood keep churning out those hits. Hitman won’t be the first video game to be pushed from gaming into ticket sales; it won’t even be the first film to feature a cool-as-ice assassin. It will be though the first flick to be produced by Adrian Askarieh—the Hollywood newcomer who also plans to release a film adaptation of Spy Hunter in 2009.
Hitman will come to theaters later this month with Timothy Olyphant in the lead as Agent 47. Askarieh, a former entertainment attorney, admits that he is a gamer. He’s also a businessman and sales for Hitman suggest success beyond the gaming consoles; in the last 7 years, 10 million copies have been purchased worldwide. The game developers aren’t involved in the movie, however, and Jans Peter Kurup (a developer on all four Hitman games) is reserving his opinion until he sees the film. The movie plot is derived from all four Hitman games according to Askarieh.
Hollywood Reporter
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[quote author="CooperHawkes" date="1187975353"]I have to say, I'm becoming more excited by this movie. I think this may be the first video game movie that translates. [url=http://media.movies.ign.com/media/499/499143/vids_1.html]Check it out here.[/url][/quote] sorry hawkes i have heard and said that befor, ill wait till it comes out but im not holding my breath on this one but im so going to see it
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Looks pretty cool. I'm going to have to see it.
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Olyphant rulez! ;)
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wow that is badass, im not expecting Shakespeare out of this movie but i do expect lots and lots of killing
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[quote][/quote]All they have to do is get the director of Crying Freeman to adapt that movie slightly and you have a great movie. Crying Freeman was an adaptation of a Japanese Manga, about a man who is captured by a Chinese group of Triads called; Sons of the Dragons. He is turned into the ultimate killer and they would call him from time to time to dispatch of their rivals. Now what does that remind me of? Hitman. Crying Freeman has some awesome fight sanes and star Mark Dacascos. If my spelling is off; sorry Mark. It is a french made movie and it rocks. If they mess this movie up, they desevre to be shot. All they have to do is have a back history about number 47, some unbelievably evil enemy and a series of fights in between.
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[quote author="dave19711998" date="1188082159"][quote][/quote]All they have to do is get the director of Crying Freeman to adapt that movie slightly and you have a great movie. Crying Freeman was an adaptation of a Japanese Manga, about a man who is captured by a Chinese group of Triads called; Sons of the Dragons. He is turned into the ultimate killer and they would call him from time to time to dispatch of their rivals. Now what does that remind me of? Hitman. Crying Freeman has some awesome fight scenes and stars Mark Dacascos. If my spelling is off; sorry Mark. It is a french made movie that is in english and it rocks. If they mess this movie up, they desevre to be shot. All they have to do is have a back history about number 47, some unbelievably evil enemy and a series of fights in between.[/quote]
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[quote author="Mr.D" date="1188025535"]wow that is badass, im not expecting Shakespeare out of this movie but i do expect lots and lots of killing[/quote] Couldn't have said it better myself. I think the movie looks like it could be entertaining even if it isn't "true" to the Hitman games.
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I think it'll work because the games plot has always been sketchy and never really... what's the word I'm looking for... The movie has the guide line of a cloned assassin, but from there it's more a blank canvas.
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