Regardless of quality, and of how badly it wasted the considerable talents of its star Timothy Olyphant, Hitman reportedly made more than $100m worldwide (on a budget of $70m), even before DVD revenue and TV rights.
The script is being written by Kyle Ward, who has also knocked out an adaptation of another game, the super-violent Kane and Lynch, rumoured to be starring Bruce Willis (although the grapevine has gone quiet lately).
Hitman in pixel form is a difficult and unusual third-person shooter, in that it rewards the player for not going in with all guns blazing. The fewer bullets you use and the less attention you draw, the better a hitman you are. That's a very difficult ethos to translate to an action movie franchise, and as the previous movie found, it's also hard to suspend an audience's disbelief in a guy who's supposed to be invisible but rarely disguises his stand-out baldness or the goddamn barcode on his head.
But maybe we should be more optimistic. Hitman is a great series of games and could make a decent movie, if it was lucky enough to find a team that actually put some thought into it. If lessons are learned from the first one, maybe a sequel could be an improvement.
What do you think? No cast details yet. Would Olyphant be insane to return?
L: JoeyPottr
I hope Timothy Olyphant and Olga Kuryenko are in in this one, I didn't think the first one was that bad, it's based on a video game so how good can anything be based on a video game really.
here's no reason why a video game movie can't be any good, it's just that more often than not a studio will hire some untalented hack director to make it.
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L: JoeyPottr
I hope Timothy Olyphant and Olga Kuryenko are in in this one, I didn't think the first one was that bad, sed on a video game so how good can anything be based on a video game really.ote]
If it can't be any better than a certain level of rubbishness, I can't see why they'd bother with a sequel. ... Read More
I hope Timothy Olyphant and Olga Kuryenko are in in this one, I didn't think the first one was that bad, it's based on a video game so how good can anything be based on a video game really. ... Read More
Loved the Game... didn't love the movie... BUT This doesn't mean they cant make a 2nd movie and have it be actually decent, get a good script and a good director together and maybe something can happen... but if you take away Olyphant then regardless of a good Script/Director this is Auto Fail. And please dont mention Max Payne... i think Marky Mark is the man but that movie but BLOWED! and it could have been sooo good... ... Read More
Super Mario Bros. Mortal Kombat. Street Fighter. Tomb Raider. Resident Evil. Alone in the Dark. Hitman. Max Payne. Doom. What's the common demoninator here? That's right, they are all irefutably terrible. Why? Because they are made by hacks. Why don't they just stop? The only acceptable video game adaptation was the Earthworm Jim animated series. That is all. I suppose if everybody stopped watching them, it might help. But we keep going back hoping for something good from it. Truth is, I don't r... Read More
L: Fliblet
The first Hitman film was.....not great. Ok, so the action and fights were well-choreographed and suitably bloody and the explosions were appropriately orange-y but it didn't have an ounce of originality or imagination and I can't remember for the life of me what the hell it was all about now (and I saw it less than 6 months ago). It suffered from that horrible, soulless, film-making-by-committee feel that scuppers many a blockbusting action film (see Wolverine for more&nbs... Read More
The first Hitman film was.....not great. Ok, so the action and fights were well-choreographed and suitably bloody and the explosions were appropriately orange-y but it didn't have an ounce of originality or imagination and I can't remember for the life of me what the hell it was all about now (and I saw it less than 6 months ago). It suffered from that horrible, soulless, film-making-by-committee feel that scuppers many a blockbusting action film (see Wolverine for more recent evidenc... Read More
That's all...just stop adapting games into movies they ALL suck. Every time a new one is announced part of us hopes that this will be the one to triumph but, ultimately, they all disappoint. Sadly, as long as square eyed console jockeys and diehard hopefuls keep going to see 'em, they'll keep making 'em. ... Read More
The problems with the first one were some poor direction and having Dougary Scott in it explaining every bleedin' obvious thing that occurs on screen.
Olyphant was good in it, he should do another/ cash in while he can. ... Read More
