A new Hitman movie brings Agent 47 back to the big screen
If you missed the 2007 movie adaptation of the Hitman video game series, and if the trailer is any indication, Hitman: Agent 47 might be an enjoyable on-screen introduction to the character for a new generation. I honestly thought the trailer was for a television series, so I didn’t watch it until a friend messaged expressing his excitement. Admittedly, I was never a huge fan of the games, and the first film was a bit silly, but Agent 47 looks like a Crank-style guilty pleasure sort of experience for fans of ridiculous action as well as the video game franchise.
Check out the first trailer for Hitman: Agent 47, read the plot synopsis, and take a look at the poster after the jump.
Aside from taking the “you’re locked in here with me” line from Rorschach (Watchmen), the trailer did its best to sell the heartless assassin turned possible savior story into something worth seeing in theaters. Could be a wild ride and a fun breakthrough film for first-time director Aleksander Bach.
If you’re not familiar with the games or previous movie, here’s a plot synopsis to bring you up to speed on who Agent 47 is and what the new movie is about:
HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research – and forty-six earlier Agent clones — endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47’s past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe.
Hitman: Agent 47 stars Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto, Ciaran Hinds, Hannah Ware, Emilio Rivera, and Thomas Kretschmann. The movie makes its way to theaters on August 28, 2015.
