Beginning tomorrow, the first trailer for Hitman will be shown before screenings of Live Free or Die Hard. This afternoon, the trailer also showed up on YouTube, click here to watch it.
Hitman is based on the popular series of video games produced by Danish development studio IO Interactive. The games star Agent 47, a mysterious, genetically modified hitman.
Vin Diesel was originally signed to produce and star in the movie, but he pulled out last year. He was replaced by Timothy Olyphant of HBO’s Deadwood, with Mission Impossible: II’s Dougray Scott co-starring. The film was helmed by French director Xavier Gens and written by Skip Woods, who also wrote the John Travolta-Hugh Jackman movie Swordfish.
Hitman is scheduled to open in theaters October 12, 2007.
UPDATE 6/30/07: Yahoo! now has the trailer here, with options to view it in High Definition.
I saw a screenshot of the infamous bar code on his head…and two things came to mind that i hope will not be a major distracting feature in the final movie:
1) The barcode looked alittle too high…
2) He was…tanned. Hitman isn’t tanned. He’s sickly white, like ‘Powder’ white…
Yeah. Maybe i’m banking too much on a single screenshot. Still…
I’m not sure about Olyphant as Agent 47. He’s a good actor, but he doesn’t really look like 47. It looks like they’re not changing his character too much, though, which is good.
I saw the prevue for it on Thursday night at village and I reckon it looks like a shit hot movie. If anyone finds more screenshots of the movie please hit me on myspace.