‘Hitman’ Reboot Coming, Paul Walker Is Agent 47!

This is certainly an interesting and unexpected piece of news.

Fox today announced their intent to reboot the Hitman franchise. The first Hitman film (fittingly called Hitman) was released in 2007. The film was universally panned by critics and fans alike, but nevertheless went on to gross over 100 million dollars.

The new film, titled Agent 47, will be the feature debut of commercial director Aleksander Bach. Skip Woods and Michael Finch (A Good Day to Die Hard) will write the script, while (in an interesting piece of casting news) Paul Walker (Fast and Furious 6) has signed on to play Agent 47 (yes, you read that right… we’re all for it).

A good friend of Geekscape’s, Adrian Askarieh, is one of the producers on the film. He’s also producing the upcoming Deus Ex: Human Revolution movie! Both of those are near and dear to my heart, Adrian, so make us proud!