The Hitman

[The Apatow Crew]

Timothy Olyphant to Play Hitman
Source: Ain't It Cool News
December 5, 2006


Ain't It Cool News reports that Timothy Olyphant has landed the title role in the adaptation of the Eidos video game Hitman, Vin Diesel was previously attached to star in the role.

The site has learned that the script by Skip Woods (Swordfish) has received the green light from 20th Century Fox.

Luc Besson will co-produce along with Chuck Gordon, Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter. The film dould be in theaters as early as next fall.

Olyphant also stars as Bruce Willis' nemesis in Fox's Live Free or Die Hard.

I think he's a good actor. I;ve liked him in Go,Scream 2,The Girl Next Door.

So this should be cool to see. i like all of his work i've seen so far.

 

[zer00]

I'm estatic

 

[Wolfwood]

Definitely not what I would've expected, I think I still would've preferred Jason Statham, but Timothy Olyphant is a pretty kick ass guy. An interesting choice, better then Vin Diesel IMO.

 

[Rob Lobo]

Go Olyphant , I love his acting in Rockstar and Dreamcatcher. Very underated guy.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

Definitely not what I would've expected, I think I still would've preferred Jason Statham, but Timothy Olyphant is a pretty kick ass guy. An interesting choice, better then Vin Diesel IMO.

Statham is getting too cliche in that type of role. I am so glad that Olyphant got it I loved his casting in Die Hard 4 and think he is an amazing actor.

 

[BT18]

Way better choice. It's so ******ed when people can't comprehend the notion of non-bald actors for bald roles or think that already bald actors MUST BE better, much less THE BEST POSSIBLE CHOICE , IE Patrick Stewart as Xavier (he wasn't). Vin Diesel would have been just as if more unimaginative. The notion of Jason Statham would have been as bad and unimaginative a type-cast as both of those combined, considering the gigantic retread overlap that would have been pointed out with the Transporter. Yeah, one makes hits, one makes deliveries. But their still underworld badasses in suits who are fairly recent mediocre pop culture characters.

it's called a

, look into it

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

Actually looking at all of the pictures of him I am surprised I never noticed how much he looks the role. Awesome choice.

 

[Dark Carnage]

I'm not sure if he has the right face for it, but I like the guy so I'm not worried.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I have no idea what he looks like but Red and Zer00 seem to like him so i guess he fits the part

 

[Dark Carnage]

I have no idea what he looks like

I don't get that, Google is a click away and you have his name.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648249/

 

[Hunter Rider]

I don't get that, Google is a click away and you have his name.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648249/

Laziness good sir......laziness and not really caring along with having other things to do and yeah laziness
Oh and thanks for the link

 

[Hunter Rider]

Ah i thought i recognized the name,i watched the first season of Deadwood,yes he shall do nicely for this role i think

 

[A.J.Rimmer(BSC)]

Way better choice. It's so ******ed when people can't comprehend the notion of non-bald actors for bald roles or think that already bald actors MUST BE better, much less THE BEST POSSIBLE CHOICE , IE Patrick Stewart as Xavier (he wasn't). Vin Diesel would have been just as if more unimaginative. The notion of Jason Statham would have been as bad and unimaginative a type-cast as both of those combined, considering the gigantic retread overlap that would have been pointed out with the Transporter. Yeah, one makes hits, one makes deliveries. But their still underworld badasses in suits who are fairly recent mediocre pop culture characters.

Blasphemy!!!

 

[KenK]

Way better choice. It's so ******ed when people can't comprehend the notion of non-bald actors for bald roles or think that already bald actors MUST BE better, much less THE BEST POSSIBLE CHOICE , IE Patrick Stewart as Xavier (he wasn't).

And thus your argument is irrelevant. To say anyone could have done better than Stewart as Xavier, I just can't agree with it. Aside from the asthetics of him already looking the part, Stewart brought the warmth and authority you expect from Xavier. There was sincerity in his voice that made you believe in Xavier's message.

 

[Nathan]

Now I'm convinced. There IS a god. I'm glad Vin Diesel didn't get the role, I don't have anything against the man but he simply didn't fit the part at all.

Though I would've prefered Michael T. Weiss in the role of Agent 47.

 

[Darthphere]

Olyphant is awesome.

 

[patrickbateman]

Really wanted Michael T Weiss (the pretender) for the role but I'm glad they didnt go with Vin. Timothy reminds me more of Max Payne anyway cant wait to see how he turns out in the role

 

[terry78]

I have to agree that automatically choosing Statham would be way too contrived. He's already played a lesser version of Agent 47 about 6 times in movies as it is.

 

[Apollo]

another video game movie, and yet theres still no Zelda!!!

 

[Nathan]

That's because Zelda sucks.

 

[Two-Face]

Definitely not what I would've expected, I think I still would've preferred Jason Statham, but Timothy Olyphant is a pretty kick ass guy. An interesting choice, better then Vin Diesel IMO.

Same here, Statham as Hitman would've been great.

 

[Max J Power]

I haven't seen Timothy Olyphant in anything or played any of the games so I'm indifferent.

Also, if people decided to stop making video game movies completely, I'd be OK with that.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

I haven't seen Timothy Olyphant in anything or played any of the games so I'm indifferent.

Also, if people decided to stop making video game movies completely, I'd be OK with that.

Play a Hitman game then you will see why it would make a great movie. The games are already so movie-like it would be hard to screw it up.

 

[The Last Meatbag]

Much better than Vin.....I'm hoping he'll do well..he has a sinister face

 

[Van Petrol]

Is he gonna' shave his head?