I was aware that it is a book adaptation but i didn’t knew it was the second 
Will check it out 
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Still my absolute favourite Forsyth novel (rivalled perhaps only by The Dogs of War) 
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Only If done in a way “Arcane” was done. High budget CGI/Art with people who know and respect source material.
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The old Hitman TV series thread upped and gone, might as well talk here.
I think Hitman should stick to live-action. Arcane’s a fantasy steampunk work, Hitman’s much more grounded and realistic even with the clone assassin stuff. Also, I want to see the actors in all their live-action glory.
Bateson’s 63 and never been in a really action heavy role, and he gives off more “Grandpa” or “moderately trustworthy car salesman” than “unstoppable killing machine”. I guess Perry could reprise her role, but I’ll prefer a recasting. If only Bryan Seeker could stop fiddling around with Harry Potter and Simpsons and give a recasting for Hitman, even if it’s just 47 and Diana.
I can’t think of a good casting for 47, but I’ve got several for Diana: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Gemma Arterton, Rachel Weisz, Rebecca Ferguson, Jodie Comer, Vanessa Kirby, Jessie Mei Li and Rhona Mitra, depending on Diana’s age and how faithful to the game it wants to be.
I think every episode could be about 47 assassinating a target or two, while Diana speaks in his ear. Unfortunately, that wouldn’t really make for engaging television, and I would really like to expand on Diana’s character. We’ll have to strike a balance.
If the series focuses on the early days at the Agency, I’ll like to see Diana befriend the other handlers, and interact with Soders, Gore, etc. I keep having this idea where Diana’s uncle/aunt/grandfather is the ICA Director and she is being groomed to be the next Director. It’ll be a reboot of sorts.
If the series is set after Hitman 3, I’ll like to see Jiao and Clera returning as antagonists. I also like to imagine an antagonist being an old childhood friend of Diana, like Grey was to 47. With Providence and their control over the world gone, I think there will be some chaos that would both endanger 47 and Diana and create business opportunities for them.
For villains, there could Mark Faba (or a character based on him), extremist MI6/CIA agents attempting to sabotage Russia/China, a Mafia boss running a murder-for-hire operation, etc.
I don’t get why the current series we have took so much liberties, giving 47 hair and making it a political thriller. It’s a simple premise. Start with Agent 47 taking contracts to assassinate bad guys with help from Diana and expand from there.
I’m not sure if it’s blasphemy, but I think the series would do well to forgo the barcode. Or at least make it invisible to the naked eye.
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I say, I’d they’re gonna do a Hitman series, it should be anime-style. No live-action, no CGI, no western animation. Get the pros to do it. And stick with the goddamned established lore!
jodie comer is an incredible suggestion but i think she would be wasted as diana, she would be an outstanding villain/antihero though especially if the writers took some inspiration from villanelle
She’d be good as JoAnn Bayswater.
lookswise sure but not unless they really fleshed her out. it would be a waste to have her play anything other than a main antagonist role, she’s too talented for anything else
Well, yeah, it wouldn’t be a single episode thing. It would expand her concept of trying to establish her own assassination agency like in the ET mission to a plot that would last a good chunk of a season for ICA to track her down and she takes on 47.
I remember seeing thread on r/HiTMAN about who they would cast for each World of Assassination mission. Interesting read, but I can’t show it because subreddit shut down.
What benefit would it bring to the series?
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I said if, or rather I tried to, I see there that damn auto-correct changed it, but that’s what they should do if they have to make a series. What benefit to make it anime? It wouldn’t look like crap. What benefit for having a series in the first place? None at all.
Anime can look crap, too, though. And I can’t think of an aspect exclusive to anime that will necessarily make the show better.
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I think it’ll solve our 47 problem; finding an actor who looks, sounds, feels and acts like Agent 47 and is willing to shave their head for the part is probably very hard. An animated series, though not necessarily anime, would solve that issue since we can just animate him. We could even get Bateson and Perry to reprise their roles.
This isn’t anime specific, Western Animation and CGI could do as well. I guess Anime or Animesque animation has an appeal to a certain demographic, though I can’t say I’m a really big fan myself. I think Western Animation and CGI films also have a shiftier track record, especially on darker media like Hitman.
I get the merits of animation, but I still prefer live-action. Animation is usually used for fantasy, superhero or science-fiction films or TV where getting fancy props or creating elaborate sets is inconvenient. And I’ll like to see all the actors and action in live-action, it’ll feel more real, for lack of a better word.
Comer definitely has the chops to play Diana, she won a Tony for Prima Facie. But I agree that she’ll probably fit better as a villain. She looks like Joanne Bayswater, but she could also play another character, like a rogue MI6 agent or something. I’ll like to see her use that rustic English accent of hers for once.
I think the series would be a good opportunity to explore Diana’s character and motivations, to an extent the games and past films weren’t able to. We didn’t even see her face for the first four games.
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Yes, it can, but western animation is guaranteed to look like crap. There hasn’t been a well-animated western cartoon since the days of Justice League. The odds of an anime getting it right are within 90% or so and that’s good enough odds for me.
I am in the minority, I’ll wager, but I would absolutely hate it if they did this series in an anime style. I have a problem with animation in general and find it largely unwatchable, but anime, particularly, I absolutely cannot watch. Putting Hitman in that format would be a complete waste, in my opinion.
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Hulu will be doing a series based on the game. The working title is Death Awaits. The idea is to focus on the target(s) and have 47 in the background. Here is what Hitman 3 director Mattias Engström said about the idea, " I kind of liked the idea of having each episode [be] its own thing where there is a party and somewhere you’re following some characters and in the background there’s someone who hunts, but you don’t know, you’re not really following Agent 47 or the Hitman. They’re in there somewhere and you’re trying to find them as you watch the characters that the episode is about, you know what I mean? There’s like a monster somewhere that is going to peak out."
I also like the idea, and as far as stories, well, each map in the games is already stories waiting to be written.
Nothing confirms this.
He said that two years ago, and he has nothing to do with the tv series. He was answering a question about how he would make the tv series if he was in charge of it.
All that article says is that there are new trademarks by Twentieth Century Fox related to Hitman, which I found two months before that article.
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I still like the premise of target(s) centered stories with 47 in the background. Guess I’ll occasionally check the IMDB page for the series.
I just watched Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning. Won’t spoil anything, but Hayley Atwell has a very lovely voice, quite similar to Jane Perry’s. I think she could pull off Diana.
Atwell starts talking about 6:11 down here. Ferguson starts about 4:34 and Kirby at 10:00.
