Game Daily has posted an interview with film producer Adrian Askarieh about his slate of films based on video games such as a sequel to the 2007 film which he produced,
Hitman,
Kane & Lynch and
Just Cause.
As far as
Kane & Lynch go, the producer confirmed the
news from this summer that Bruce Willis would play Kane and revealed they are currently seeking their Lynch.
Kane & Lynch will start filming in March of 2010. Bruce Willis will star as Kane, and we're about to start casting Lynch. Lionsgate is the distributor, Millennium is financing and the movie, after two and a half years of false starts, is finally going into production.
Askarieh revealed that Kyle Ward has been hired to write the sequel to
Hitman, but it wasn't quite clear if they'd get Timothy Olyphant back, due to his new FX TV series
Lawman.
When it comes to Hitman 2, Tim Olyphant is working on a new TV show, so are you going to get a new Hitman in terms of the actor? We haven't discussed that. We and the studio are all waiting for the script to come in to make some very big decisions, but we'd love to have Tim if he wants to do the movie. We'd love to have him back.
Because he has to shave his head for this role, that impacts things that he does after you wrap Hitman 2, correct? I agree. That's a big factor for him because he's got a TV show, and it's just a matter of the timing. We'd love to have him back if he wants to do it, but we haven't gotten to that point. We'll probably do
Hitman sometime middle of next year, but right now we're just waiting for the script to come in.
The film that Askarieh is currently working on,
Just Cause, is being financed independently, on the heels of the video game sequel to be released next year.
I'm doing
Just Cause right now, which I'm doing independently. I think
Just Cause is going to blow up as a franchise this February with Just Cause 2. It became the de-facto hit of E3, so the reason I went after it and I got it is because I saw a movie in it, not because it was going to be a hot video game. That helps. Don't get me wrong. We live in an era of brands and easily marketable ideas and high-concept materials such as comic books and video games. But
Just Cause is a great action-adventure spy movie, which is a totally different motif than
Hitman.
Hitman is a great assassin movie,
Kane & Lynch is a great buddy action movie. So all these are first-and-foremost good movie ideas, then video games.
for the site's full interview with film producer Adrian Askarieh.
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BD, I would rather see a great game adaptation that tanks in the box office than see one that's a horrible movie that insults it's fans and performs well at the box office, Max Payne and Resident Evil Extinction for example of terrible movies but brought in a good amount of money. I like Mickey but I haven't seen Madsen play a bad ass in while, because he wasn't shit as Bud in Kill Bill. Then again, I haven't seen Rourke play a bad ass in while either.
plus GameInformer just had an article bout this. games like Prince of Persia, Uncharted and Infamous are getting really good talent behind them the same way that comic book movies has recently done. these three in the article rn't goin to have Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer behind them, they r goin to have lil to no name directors and bottom of the barrel actors (aside from Willis). they r goin to fall into the Max Payne (i don't count Walberg as bottom of the barely either but w/e), Doom, Mario Brothers and Dead or Alive category of video games made to movies, they won't be good.
Newkill, I realize it's not a fan based game, but most nerds know what it is, and all I'm saying is that it could be a great movie. Just think if Michael Mann did it. The shootout/chase sequence in the begining of the game when they escape the police transport would be amazing considering Heat had that epic cops vs. robbers battle in the streets.
I'm sure there can be more depth found the story, as well.
CB, Kane & Lynch isn't one of those well known fan based games, so there really isn't potential in it at all. It's basically just a two player, arcade like, shooter/tactical action game. Nothing special about the story.
But Mann could definately work as well
I always thought of Willis being Kane and Thornton being Lynch, so let's hope that works out.
Also, the only person I can see making this good is Michael Mann, but only if he does whatever he did to make Heat so outstanding.
Kane & Lynch...Well obviously the film needs Bruce Willis as Kane, and yeah Billy Bob Thornton as Lynch, Ken Watabe as Retomoto, plz as well.
Oh and this has to be rated like a proper R.
Now how about we get a Uncharted Film & Assassin's Creed...
hitman 2 is obviously gonna have a female they cant do an assassin movie without a hot ass chick being in danger