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New Hitman Movie Planned, Paul Walker To Star

Fox is looking to reboot the Hitman movie franchise, this time with Paul Walker, best known for his work in the The Fast and the Furious films. The film will be titled Agent 47.

With Timothy Olyphant, who played Agent 47, busy starring in one of the best television shows currently on the air, Justified, Walker has been tapped shave his dome and put on a black suit. According to Deadline.com, the film's script was written by Skip Woods and Michael Finch, who worked together on A Good Day to Die Hard.

It will be directed by Aleksander Bach, who has no previous film experience, but has won advertising industry awards for directing television spots for Mercedes Benz and the International Red Cross. The film will be distributed by 20th Century Fox. The executive producer on the project is Daniel Alter who produced the original Hitman film and is also reportedly involved in the film adaptation of Kane & Lynch.

Source: Deadline

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  • It doesn't seem like a Hitman movie would be hard to make. The plot is kind of thin.

  • Oh no.

  • it's refreshing to see this dude not play a cop...

  • Mind = blown.

  • my god, what do we do...

  • Because the first one was so great!
  • I guess it would be more likely to fit into the action mold Hollywood loves.

  • Whaaaaaat? :S

  • Aw c'mon!!! They shoulda hired Bruce Willis instead!!!
  • I don't know about this one....

  • Anybody think Michael Fassbender would be a great choice too? I know he's pretty much in everything now, but he'd still be great! Too bad Paul Walker's gonna have to suffer through a bald cap now.
  • PLEASE tell me this is just a bad rumor! He can't act!!!
  • Here is how you write a Hitman script:

    Agent 47 gets an assignment to kill ____ from ____ .

    He goes to the _____ .

    He silently and without saying anything more than a few short sentences to anyone or being spotted kills _____ in an interesting way by ____ him in the _____ from ____ using _____ .

    He escapes and gets funds transferred into his account.

    Repeat as many times as desired to fill in the two hour running time. Anything more than that is not really a true Hitman movie. It's just another generic action movie with a bald guy in it.

    Feel free to write one yourself.
  • I personally enjoyed the first Hitman movie, but I'm also a fan of Timothy Olyphant who I thought did a great job as Agent 47. I don't really know this Paul Walker guy so I just hope he can do as well as Olyphant did with the character.
  • No... no... please God no... please don't let this happen!

  • When will this be out?

  • I'm trying to think of an actor worse than Walker, but, anybody worse than him starts triggering the so bad it's good factor. So, ergo, they couldn't do any worse than him, without it being ridiculous.
  • If he really does play as Agent 47 in the next Hitman movie and pulls it off, it'll boost his career, but movie adaptations of video games always get a bad rep, so even if he is great in the movie, the actual movie may suck. At the moment, I personally don't believe that Paul Walker is suited for this kind of role, I do enjoy him in the Fast and Furious movies and movies like Takers, but he's a pretty boy, where as 47 is like this stern, solemn guy

  • Ah desperation.....what a miserable b**** you are

  • Terrible idea..

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