PRODUCTION STARTS
ON HITMAN MOVIE
Copyright 2007 Eidos plc Press Release
[ April 2nd 2007 ]
Eidos
Interactive, one of the world’s leading publishers
and developers of entertainment software, can
confirm that production on the HITMAN movie has
begun. Filming commenced on March 27 and will
continue in and around the Bulgarian capital of
Sofia for 12 weeks before moving on to locations
in South Africa, St. Petersburg and London.
Timothy
Olyphant (Deadwood, Die Hard 4.0) stars as the
world’s deadliest assassin and Dougray Scott (Mission:
Impossible II, Desperate Housewives) portrays
the antagonist. Olga Kurylenko (Paris je t’aime),
Robert Knepper (Prison Break), Ulrich Thomsen
(Festen) and Michael Offei (Casino Royale) also
have joined the cast of the videogame adaptation.
The game's
story centers around an international assassin
known only as Agent 47 (Olyphant) who works for
a mysterious organization dubbed the Agency. The
Hitman videogames have sold in excess of 6 million
units worldwide, with the most recent instalment,
Hitman:
Blood Money selling 1.4 million units worldwide
and reaching No.1 in all key territories.
The movie
is being directed by Xavier Gens from a screenplay
by Skip Woods (Swordfish) and produced by Luc
Besson, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Adrian Askarieh
and Charles Gordon with Daniel Alter as a co-producer.
The film will be released in France through EuropaCorp
Distribution and in the rest of the world through
Twentieth Century Fox, a division of Fox Filmed
Entertainment.
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