After playing the games again I constantly sit there thinking this just wouldn't work on film a film about a single hit with little action just wouldn't sell.
Now I enjoy both films for what they are, much like the flood of Liam Neeson films we currently have they are just mindless action.
But Hitman is not about action. so how would you do the film and be specific in the plot ideas would love to hear how Hitman could work on the big screen l
I would make each act concentrate on a different contract and 47 killing them in creative ways. Just make it a really good thriller.
shareI agree. Make the film ie three acts all leading to a bigger hit. It could be done well if got s great writer and director.
shareI would make it like Codename 47 except a bit different in some places. I think the story would probably be something like 47 is "born" from the lab by the five fathers, then a short montage of him training and then maybe a short hit. The whole movie would be like him possibly going rogue and trying to find the Five Fathers and killing them with the help of Diana.
shareMine would be more espionage, stealth and quiet assassination and cool disguises rather than explosive action and only some (if not none) of the elements of the games.
shareI would do a hitman film where the main protagonist is not 47, better yet, a 47's target. In this story we follow this target who is trying to save a young girl from becoming another assassing experiment (like the one in the film) and they would be constantly fleeing from 47 on going attempts to take the girl back. This movie would involve a combination of the points of view from 47 and his target, mixing the famous 47's stealth tactics and action battle scenes. The girl's kidnapping could also be involved in some darker plan that would unravel itself by the end of the movie.
sharenice! I'd totally watch that.
shareEver seen The day of the jackal? now imagine the protagonist is call 47 instead of Jackal, and he's played by Mark Strong. perfect.
shareTHIS! Your comment is perfect and Mark Strong or Jason Stathom all bald.
Did you see Stathom in Redemption? There are flashback sequences of him completely shaven and bald and he looks IDENTICAL to Agent 47.
Wow! I'd watch that.
shareJust watch The Jackal with Bruce Willis, Richard Gere and Sidney Poitier. That's probably the closest we will ever get to a great Hitman movie. Bruce Willis in that movie - damn did he nail the silent, ruthless and effective killer part. What Hollywood just won't understand is that Hitman is not about over the top action and female sidekicks. Hitman is more of a thriller with pretty grim and dark humor.
shareMake it like Léon the professional, since this film inspired the game
shareI have a very specific idea of a Hitman series. I would, like most others, structure the movies with acts focused on killing targets. There would be bits of information and interactions with minor characters that give clues to a connected plot, with scenes mirroring cutscenes in between acts to develop the villain and story. I think it would be cool if the first movie was based on the second game, beginning with him coming out of retirement and saving the priest from Sergei. Through characters like Diana, Smith, and Sergei, we would learn bits about 47's past but still add a layer of mystery. That sets the tone as an eery but cool action thriller. The second movie would be based on Contracts and would have scenes in the present telling us what happened and developing the story/villain, with 47 dreaming about nightmarish versions of hits from the first game that answer the questions left from the first movie. The third and final movie would adapt Blood Money, with 47 going against the Franchise, ending in an epic battle with Mark Parchezzi. This would save the best villain for last, and I think the chronology would add a fun aspect to the storytelling.
shareHitman needs to have a purpose, saving the damsel in distress story line is antiquated and boring *(yawn)*. The first movie captured his emotionless spirit the way I would want to see a hitman being portrayed, giving him too much character and empathy undermines the storyline. We want a little of both, but a restrained kind of man, emotions should always be uncomfortable for him, and should leave the audience to use their own imagination for that lacking part of hitman's character. Keep his silence and good looks, women love that.
Most importantly....his purpose needs to be set in modern day times with modern day turmoil that is actually going on in the real world. That's an exciting place to be for an audience member. The use of modern day weaponry and mastered techniques is essential to his character. Action movies today are droll and tired, they lack motivation and creativity. Spruce hitman up with modern events taking place all around him. Then pick an event in hitman style warfare that isn't all that politically correct and make a good story out of it. Hitman is NOT politically correct nor is he moral, two things that the second movie had too much of!! What a waste of time and someone's money to make such a terrible movie. Agent 47 is a lab rat on steroids who kills for a living. He has to be creative,smart and un empathetic to his victims as well as strangers in order to stay alive, yet those traits weren't expressed in the second movie. Express them! Take parts of stories from a real hitman and incorporate them into the next movie somehow, the real world is stranger than fiction, so roll with it instead of putting out garbage throwbacks of tired actions flicks from last century. That's how I would make the next hitman movie.