Hitman

[Fallen Angel]

‘Hitman’ Series In Works At Hulu From ‘John Wick’ Creator Derek Kolstad http://deadline.com/2017/11/hitman-television-series-derek-kolstad-john-wick-creator-hulu-fox-21-pilot-script-1202206934/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter …

Fox 21 and Hulu have teamed for a television series based on Hitman, the global best-selling video game from IO Interactive. A pilot script will be written by Derek Kolstad, the creator of the John Wick action film series, who wrote the first film and scripted the third one that will be released in 2019.
Kolstad will be an executive producer along with Adrian Askarieh and Chuck Gordon. The project will be overseen at Fox 21 by Bert Salke, Jane Francis, Gloria Fan, and Kira Innes, and at Hulu by Jordan Helman. The hope is for Hitman to become a flagship series. Hitman has sold over 25 million copies since being launched in 2000. It revolves around the mysterious character Agent 47, a meticulous and lethal assassin with a mysterious backstory. The character has been the subject of two films released by Fox — 2007’s Hitman and 2015’s Hitman: Agent 47 — and the intention here is to hew closely to the mythology of the perennially popular video game. The latest game is simply called Hitman, and it sold 7 million copies. Two more Hitman games are in development at IO Interactive.

 

[Neno_Kos]

Great idea. I never liked either of Hitman movie adaptations. They are too Hollywood for my taste. Too much style over substance. If they can follow it more closely to video game tone that would be good.


Still this will depend on the cast. And story must be interesting. If you can't nail Agent 47 and make story interesting you failed. Regardless if action is nice and slick which they likely expect from hiring creator of John Wick.

 

[TheVileOne]

We'll see. The Halo TV series never got off the ground.

 

[Pennywise]

Hulu's HITMAN TV Series Will Be Inspired By Sydney Pollack's THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

Considering that Hulu's Hitman TV series was announced back in November 2017, it's quite hocking that we still know next to nothing about Hollywood's third attempt at adapting the IO Interactive-created game series. As a reminder, the first Hitman movie hit theaters in 2007 to a universally negative critical reception, with 2015's Hitman: Agent 47 miraculously getting even worse reviews.

In a recent interview with Discussing Film, Derek Kolstad, one of the masterminds behind the John Wick franchise and the writer of its third entry, titled John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, is also currently working on Hulu's Hitman. According to Kolstad, the first two episodes of the TV series will a "political thriller murder mystery," inspired by Sydney Pollack's cult classic Three Days of the Condor.

Kolstad also revealed that more announcements regarding the Hitman show will be coming shortly.

 

[TheVileOne]

I will stick with the games.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

They have had two chances to get this right and have failed miserably, so I don't have much hope for this either. Maybe if the trailers look good that will change my mind, but I'm not expecting much even if it does involve some of the John Wick guys.