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24Oct2009

Bruce Willis Confirmed for 'Kane & Lynch'

DateSaturday, October 24, 2009 at 3:04PM
We've been following the progress of the video game adaptation Kane & Lynch for a while, but there really hasn't been much to follow. We had heard Bruce Willis might star in the film, but that was about where the information stopped.

Now Hitman producer Adrian Askarieh tells Game Daily a few more details, including a confirmation of Willis' involvement. "Kane & Lynch will start filming in March of 2010. Bruce Willis will star as Kane, and we're about to start casting Lynch," says Askarieh. "Lionsgate is the distributor, Millennium is financing and the movie, after two and a half years of false starts, is finally going into production."

"The script has been incredibly well-received around town," the producer continued. "After Bruce Willis read it, he called it one of the best action scripts he's ever read, and Bruce is an expert in terms of action scripts because he's read everything over the last 20 years."

We also know the specific details of the gameplay may not factor into the movie, which Askarieh says instead will focus on the basic premise of the game, altered to fit the new medium. "It's not going to have every sequence from the game, but it's essentially the story of a mercenary teaming up with a schizophrenic psychopath to save his wife and daughter."

As I've said about every video game movie ever made, this is exactly how you do it, at least in the development stage. It's great to acknowledge the nature of the game, but at a certain point, it has to become a movie. That means no first-person-shooter POV like we saw in Doom and no strict adherence to the story in the game, which is designed in almost every case to be a string of challenging adventures. A movie needs a little more point A to point B than most video games, so this sounds like it's on the right track. And you've gotta love the addition of Bruce Willis.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment1 Comment |

Reader Comments (1)

never thought it before, but from that picture, i think Robert Patrick should be Lynch. either him or Ray Liotta but i don't like him a ton.

Saturday, October 24, 2009 | Unregistered Commentersammydb

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