Bruce Willis to Play Kane in 'Kane & Lynch'
A no-profile videogame adapatation may have just leapt into the A-list. Lionsgate has been developing Kane & Lynch, an adaptation of a reasonably popular but not particularly beloved videogame called Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, since last February; at one point last year, Jieho Lee, writer-director of the profoundly terrible The Air I Breathe was in talks to direct. Evidently that didn't work out, since the movie will now be directed by veteran stunt coordinator and second unit director Simon Crane. Crane is currently the stunt director on The Surrogates, a sci-fi thriller directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Bruce Willis. Which is a lovely segue into the bigger news: according to The Hollywood Reporter, Bruce Willis is in talks to play the first of the title characters. In the video game, Kane is a criminal sprung from death row to hunt and retrieve a stolen fortune under pain of death for his kidnapped wife and child. He's accompanied on his mission by fellow inmate and psychopathic killer Lynch (yet to be cast), who keeps an eye on Kane and reports to the people holding his family hostage.
Since there does not seem to be a huge fan base to capitalize on here (unlike with, say, Hitman), one hopes that Lionsgate has something interesting in mind with this adaptation. Sadly, I suspect that "generic Bruce Willis actioner" is itself a promising enough business proposition that something above-and-beyond is unlikely.
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6-03-2008 @ 11:07PM
Awesomepants said...
For Lynch? How the hell can you go wrong with Sam Jackson! Perfect.
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6-03-2008 @ 11:19PM
Ryan said...
Lynch = Paul Giamatti !!
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6-03-2008 @ 11:41PM
NvM said...
Never played the game myself but Willis seems to fit the role.
The story of the game appeared more interesting than the gameplay anyways.
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6-04-2008 @ 12:47AM
Mr. R said...
Ron Perlman for Lynch!!!!!
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6-04-2008 @ 5:05AM
bongo123 said...
this could end up being cool, but sure it'll be a PG anyways
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6-04-2008 @ 8:04AM
Peter Hall said...
Who is going to play the critic that gets fired for not shilling a sponsored review?
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6-04-2008 @ 6:23PM
Riley Freeman said...
umm how bout mickey rourke :D
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