They’ll definitely be another Hitman game. Towards they end of last year, IOI even confirmed despite them working on Bond, this won’t be the end of the Hitman Franchise.
This is what I’m looking forward to. I’m looking forward to see where 47 and Diana go from here now they are no longer tied to the ICA.
Years after becoming estranged, Diana searches for 47 for a new mission. Finds him living in a log cabin in the snowy mountains. He has a token beard. And a hidden armory in the floor, John Wick style.
Yeah, kind of like LOGAN? In my view that should have been HITMAN: ABSOLUTION.
There’s a thread in the old forum where we re-write ABSOLUTION to be specifically about an older bearded 47 who lives out of some cabin in a frigid part of the world. 
You hunt/assassinate wild animals as the tutorial.
@Quinn that might be the case for the story, but the game overall is my favourite of the classic trilogy. Missions like Beldingford Manor and Traditions of the Trade are two of my all time favourite maps.
How about a Codename 47 remake?
Wait, what? Must be the influence of @MrOchoa
How about this?
With Providence ‘dismantled’, a new era of change has started, and with it, chaos ensues. Lots of high level people stepping down or else being ‘retired’ causes the world go into a sort of dystopia. Buildings get run down, the government is in ruins, and lots of damage has been done to the world. In the midst of all this, 47 and Diana’s agency has a play in this. I don’t know where the story would go from there tho lol
Finally «Absolution MK II»!
He’s “timeless” now though. He looks more like 37-45 in the 2016 game. Like James Bond. He just keeps staying the same age despite time marching into the future.
Who’s Logan?
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The Wolverine movie. If you haven’t seen it, please please please watch. It’s a fucking masterpiece.
I don’t see why Providence should play a role anymore. In the last cutscene you hear that every leading figure stepped down “due personal reasons”. Sure they still have money but likely lack the influence with new people leading their assets. Although it would interest me why they did that when there was no public exposure of Providence’ nature at that point.
The ICA is surely gone, more than Providence. Here the board members were exposed down to the bone by the data leak.
The director’s commentary in the Deluxe Edition say 47 created his own agency. Depending on the nature of this agency he is now a freelancer agent or the boss tied to his desk job. Which would pretty much rule him out to be the protagonist.
I always assumed Diana coerced them into retirement by threatening they would be the next target or when the Constant was dead they assumed the gig was up and retired hoping to save themselves.
Or he has enough cash stashed away that he now takes on contracts to shape the world into a better spot? Like perhaps Diana and him sift through intelligence and pick the targets they think deserve to be on their list.
I’d have to listen to them again, but I think it was about 47 having agency (not “an agency”), meaning “making his own decisions” as opposed to “owning a company”.
Yeah, there’s a story in Contracts about 47 nearly dying after being shot and hallucinating some of his past missions. But that story is mostly just told in the cutscenes. Every other game has the levels integrated directly into the game’s story. But in Contracts, the missions themselves aren’t connected to each other, and except for the finale, the missions aren’t part of the story. Contracts is the closest we’ve gotten to a Hitman game of just random hits, which is what I thought you meant when you said “Contextless murdering with no meaning” would be boring.
Story wise I’d like to see 47 and Diana in the process of building their own company rather then the story taking place after it’s already established. This way we can be there from the ground up, hiring a new staff and expanding the list of main characters. Always wanted to see a clean-up crew. With the ICA being exposed, it seems likely to have a negative impact on the clientele so they may have to do some work to acquire a new one. Possibly some ICA members and old clients will be targets as well. We already taken down the top 1% of the world so let the next game be about starting over from the bottom up.
Gameplay wise is a bit harder to figure out. Other than improving the AI, I can’t see any drastic changes that can help the series evolve into something greater. 
A reboot scares me. But only because I’ve grown with this franchise and have a fondness for the story. I’d like to see it continue from the ending of HIII. If it was done well, of course, a reboot could be fantastic…
A reboot like the movies nowadays adapted to the current world?
So instead of 47 escaping the asylum in 2000 it will be in the era of… 2027?
They did a little reboot on the story in this trilogy. Not one mention to the rest of the founding fathers besides Ort Meyer, I fear another reboot will totally ditch even more things.
It is very clear, at least to me, that it will pass really a lot of time till a next Hitman. Maybe 8 years till the next console generation.
If they will continue the story I can only hope for an old 47 that started to malfunction. Something like the movie Logan but still kicking it. If a reboot then I can imagine the origin story could be the same from C47 but different.
I have this vision that 007 will be a 100% Hitman clone and I really can’t wait for that.
Noticed the Forest Swartout Large and Mattias Engström in different interviews mentioned a desire of IOI to make an Airport level.
An airport level probably is high on the list of twenty or so ideas for future Hitman scenarios on the backburner.
Maybe this and a couple other levels could be a paid DLC like The Bank and Haven Island combo.
While the World of Assassination Trilogy will be put to rest, I believe (or want to believe) that IOI will make a substantial paid DLC because Hitman 3 sold well.
It makes financial sense for short term output, while they spend another 3 to 6 years putting together Project 007.