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Hitman 5 set for 2010 release
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 29th June 2009
The new Hitman game is currently unnamed, but is scheduled for a 2010 release, possibly alongside a new film.
Refuting some rumours however, IO Interactive has promised that the movie and the film will not overlap at all and that gamers can look forward to playing with Agent 47 as they've always known him, not as he was reimagined for Hollywood.
Released in 2007, the Hitman film starred Timothy Olyphant as the enigmatic 47 and was produced by Luc Besson. Despite being almost universally panned by critics the film has been quite successful for 20th Century Fox - grossing more than $100 million USD on a budget of just $30 million USD. Yesterday Kyle Ward was revealed as working on a script for a sequel.
IO Interactive has been keeping pretty quiet about Hitman 5, but took the chance to distance itself from the film when rumours started flying that the movie and game would tie in together.
"I can tell you that there is no way we will be basing a storyline for a new Hitman game on the story in a licensed movie," a IO Interactive community manager said in a statement to Kotaku. "That's just not how we work so you shouldn't be concerned about that."
Sounds good to us, as we're big fans of Hitman here at bit-tech.net - especially Hitman: Blood Money and, while we actually thought the film was fun in a mindless kind of way, having the game tie-in with a sequel would probably be A Bad Thing.
Or would it? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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Looks like i am going to draw blood next year,
Liked the movie so that's not bad either.
I actually fell asleep in that movie. First time i'd ever done so when watching a film.
It WAS late at night, but still... Hah.
The games were always pretty awesome. Different, to everything else on the market.
I'd very much like to see a new game. =)
Glad to hear it's not happening.
So this means they can base it on an unlicensed movie then?
=]
That completely passed me by. Was it released in Britain?
Hitman 5 hopefully will be awesome. Played all 4 and played the last one twice. It can only be better!
Yeah. Don't expect a lot, but it's a good film to get drunk to. And the Hitman drinking game is fun.
You drink whenever 47 kills someone - two fingers if he does it with a gun, three for a rifle and a shot if it's a melee or sword kill. You have to down half your drink whenever the Interpol detective puts a cigarette in his mouth too.
That was the Max Payne film...never watched it. Hitman on the other hand, went for the Bond with blood angle - loads of action and death, flashed the flesh of that girl that went on to be in a Bond, but no bonking. Cannot believe the individual Blood Money had been deleted by the time the first film was out, they could have sold stacks of it even if it was unrelated like Tomb Raider before it.
I agree with the separation simply because of the two media, what little character was established in the film was worth hanging onto for those that don't play the games, but the games have a seven year head start, so each to their own.