More 'Hitman' Sequel Details Emerge

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27Jun2009

Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 12:25AM

Earlier this week, it was announced that Fox was pursuing a sequel to Hitman, a fair but not exceptional video game adaptation. The primary problem with the first film, in my mind, was a reticence to go all in. Timothy Olyphant was good casting but the story wasn't as crisp as it could have been and the studio didn't exactly throw tons of money at it.

So maybe that's a void this sequel will fill. It was rumored and is now confirmed that Kyle Ward will write the script, and he's becoming something of a specialist in this field, working on the Kane and Lynch adaptation as well as the freshly minted movie version of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.

Because there's a lot of Hitman history to cull from, it's important to know what we're going to see next, and according to Variety, it will draw inspiration from the fifth game in the series, due out next year.

In the sequel, Agent 47 "must build himself back up psychologically and physically to reclaim his mantle as the world's most feared assassin." Presumably Timothy Olyphant will return as Agent 47, but the director remains an unknown.

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