Skip Woods to pen Hitman
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Screenwriter Skip Woods has been tapped to adapt the popular video game Hitman into a feature film starring Vin Diesel. Woods, who wrote Swordfish (a.k.a. the one where Halle went topless), as well as the indie feature Thursday, also did some work on the remake of Logan's Run titled, "Leave this one alone you bastards!"
Fox is looking at Hitman as a possible franchise for them, seeing as the first three games released have sold more than 5 million units. With Hitman: Blood Money set to hit the gaming streets this winter, it's looking like this one may be around awhile. In case you're actually interested in the story (instead of Vin's diesel forearms), it's said to center around an international assassin dubbed Agent 47 who, in turn, works for the creatively named organization, Agency. That's right folks - the agency is called Agency. Man, what I would give to be a fly on the wall during that brainstorming session.
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10-21-2005 @ 9:09PM
Tenken said...
So I expect that the film will have it's coolest scene in the the first five minutes, and the rest of the film will be a completely non-sensical waste of time? Maybe they'll try do to something supposedly new at the end, but it will end up being as lame as seeing a bus flying through the air.
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10-22-2005 @ 12:56PM
Gil said...
The story in the game is great and very complex but the film looks like it's not even going to get close to it?
Vin Diesel as 47? The character is BRITISH!
Second the if they're aiming at the same quality as "Swordfish" then we can kiss any complexity goodbye.
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