Wreck-It Ralph aside, movies based on video games are bad. There is no getting around that. Sure, movie studios are trying to remedy this by attaching quality names to upcoming adaptions (Tom Hardy on Splinter Cell, Michael Fassbender on Assassin's Creed), but until I see some footage, I am going to assume the worst. One movie that sticks out the most in the realm of bad video game adaptions is 2007's Hitman, the story of a man raised from birth to be the perfect assassin. They got part of it right with casting Timothy Olyphant in the lead, but everything else let it down. Now, Fox are going back to fix past mistakes, with a reboot titled Agent 47. Named after the main character of the games franchise, this distances itself enough form the first film, but still has the name recognition to get gamers interested.
Shooting is set to begin this Summer in Berlin and Singapore, with first-time director Aleksander Bach working from a script by A Good Day To Die Hard scribes Skip Woods and Michael Finch. Paul Walker is taking the lead role of the bald headed killing machine, but there is no word yet on the story. Considering the amount of positive buzz Walker's latest film, Fast and Furious 6, is receiving after only two trailers, the profile will be quite high on this one. Lets hope they can break the video game to movie trend.
via Deadline
