Just over a year ago, we heard that Homeland star Rupert Friend was in talks to replace Paul Walker in Agent 47, another adaptation of the popular Hitman video game series. Aside from a few minutes of footage screened at Comic-Con last summer, things have been pretty quiet on that front. But this morning, 20th Century Fox released a trailer for the film, which now carries the title Hitman: Agent 47.
You can view the Hitman Agent 47 trailer below, thanks to JoBlo.
This is Hollywood’s second attempt to bring the Hitman series to the big screen, after the disappointing 2007 film starring Timothy Olyphant. The action here certainly looks much crazier – maybe a little too crazy – and Friend looks a bit more comfortable in the role than Olyphant did.
But there’s no denying that the dialogue is pretty terrible. Zachary Quinto’s exposition-heavy conversation about Agent 47 being an “engineered human being” is almost painful to listen to. Then again, this was never a movie that was going to win any screenwriting awards. It’s a pure action flick, full of explosions and gunfire, and that may be enough to find an audience.
We’ll find out when Hitman: Agent 47 hits theaters on August 28.
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.
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