The lower layer of the joke is that I don’t know of any actual true crime people who can be considered celebrities, only celebrities who act as crime people.
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Kinda like the sniper comp that rewarded 3 players with personalized NPCs in Haven.
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They did do an Easter egg in Miami where someone does an impersonation of him if you kill everyone on the map, so it’s not that far of a stretch.
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I didn’t really think of it as an actual crime researcher, but I thought that it would be making fun of them, as did The Disruptor, when they make fun of influencers boxing, where they box with actual pros (such as Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, or Creator Clash).
It would be a nice idea a series of celebrity elusive targets with the nationality of every map. Just to make some examples, the italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino for Sapienza; Christoph Waltz for Berlin (he’s austrian but he has also german citizenship); Jean Reno for Paris; Hideo Kojima for Hokkaido (just to mention a famous japanese guy, because I don’t remember now the names of some actor born in Japan); the scottish Gerard Butler for Isle of Sgail; Peter Jackson for New Zealand; Chow Yun-fat for Chongqing; Kabir Bedi for India (but maybe he’s more famous in Italy than in his native country).
I know it’s just fantasy that never could be realized (too much money would be necessary), but it’s just to let imagination work.
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My fantasy is Embracer Group CEO, Isle of Sgail.
Well, this is the closest. Everytime I KO this guy and put him in the nearby closet I always think; “Is this supposed to be Hideo Kojima?” 
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- Lillian Tull (Cate Blanchett) - Conductor of the Prague Philharmonia, plagued by sexual assault allegations by several former students. Her newest protégée is a 14 year old Russian violin prodigy who she had been spoiling with gifts, bringing around on her travels and keeping in her hotel. Tull had been invited to the Ark Society to oversee her orchestra.
- Zachary Moore (Jason Bateman) and Ruth Moore (Laura Linney) - a pair of money launderers for the Delgado Cartel.
- Kenna Carlton (Margot Robbie) and Barnaby Robertson (Ryan Gosling) - Sanguine fashion models and IAGO spies
- Dr. Patrick Reilley (Cillian Murphy) - Irish Ether bioengineer and Silvio Caruso’s deputy lab head, suspected of creating and selling bioweapons on the black market.
- Miles Wheeler (Jon Hamm) and Isabella Rubio (Eiza González) - A pair of bank robbers, currently holding the Milton-Fitzpatrick bank hostage.
- Christopher Burton (Ansel Elgort) - An up-and-coming F1 racer in Miami and a former gateway driver for a jewel thief gang.
- Stella Blakeson (Rosamund Pike) - a conwoman who makes a living proclaiming guardianship over elders. In Whittleton Creek to find new marks.
- Gregory Holland (John Oliver) - a former chemical company executive turned whistleblower who secretly murdered his colleagues to cover up his own role in a poisoning scandal.
- Alan Cawley (Dan Bull) and Basil Holmes (The Stupendium) - British Nerdcore rappers suspected of the murder of their producer. Currently in Bangkok to collaborate with Jordan Cross.
- Donald Vance (Benjamin Byron Davis) and Andrew Marcus (Roger Clark) - The leader and second-in-command of an anarchist terrorist group, planning an alliance with the Shadow Client’s militia in Colorado
- Harrison Dunlowe (Johnny Depp) - A superstar actor who accused his wife of domestic abuse, ultimately driving her to suicide. Currently attending the Sanguine fashion show.
- Katherine Evergreen (Jennifer Lawrence) - a former competitive archer. Falling out of the finals over a doping scandal, she ended up firing an arrow into the winner’s neck and stealing his money. She had joined the Shadow Client’s militia as a soldier.
- Hasan Kadi (Rami Malek) and David Johansson (Christian Slater) - black hat hackers.
- Lionel Rosewood (Tom Holland) - a young English lord whose lovers keep going missing.
- Steven Newton (Penn Badgley) and Michelle Newton (Victoria Pedretti) - a young couple who moved into Whittleton Creek or on holiday in Sapienza, Bangkok or Haven Island
- Tyrone Alexander (Giancarlo Esposito) - Milton-Fitzpatrick CFO and Cartel banker, in New York to oversee business
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Oooh, gimme that last one!
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Celebrity ET David Bateson would be perfect!
Realistically? Some ‘influencer’ I will have never heard of.
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Are you aware that Bateson portraying Agent 47?
How you imagine this story-wise?
Agent slept on some of his past missions and left his DNA material which was located, gathered, identified and sent to Ortmeier #2 with the task to make an identical clone to kill the original?
Something like in the movie called Loop?
Never considered that but a variation of NY during a big bank robbery is a great idea. Make it a full hostile area like Colorado or PZ, NPCs taken hostage, guards replaced with patrolling gang members. Could be a lot of fun.
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I mean, according to the Icon mission, David Bateson does exists in universe, and he is an actor.
(video courtesy of @Serious_Pony)
Don’t see it happening though.
As for who might be the next CelebrEt (if there is one).
If IOI still aims to diversify their audience with them, I think it means it will be someone that we, the niche audience, at best know to our periphery.
I still wish it were actors, for the writing and characters, Not this weird ego drivel, influencer bro undercurrent we have currently.
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After Connor McGregor and the attention and players he brought to the game IOI will want another piece of that pie if given the chance and it surely be someone that attracts young audience.
Terry Crews needs to be the next one if there ever will be.
Tho bbno$ will be easily convinced.
TLDR: Someone that will attract young audiences.
I just hope IOI are not in their McNamara era.
I don’t know what Namara means (nor google gives an explanation), but I mean, people that are more famous to younger audiences, nothing more.
and say whatever you want about mcgregor, but holy shit he brought alot of players, game peaked in activity with 150k daily users, this nuber is crazy for a 4 yrold sp game.
I can’t believe IOI won’t try to bite this pie again.
If it were up to me, I’d pick Nicolas Cage. He seems perfect for the Hitman universe with his over-the-top acting. Could imagine him being some kind of unhinged character, walking around in a formal gathering like in Mendoza, being a nuisance and a great source of awkward discomfort for all the guests.
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You know, NC actually does seem like a good pick. And he’s got a distinctive enough voice to work. I think he’d maybe too high-priced for IO, but you never know. But they’d have to throw in a scene where just SUDDENLY STARTS SHOUTING FOR NO GOOD REASON!
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Bruce Willis as a vigilante policeman who’s lurking in the bowels of The Spire in Dubai. VIP and Client in the likeness of Alan Rickman wants to break into the Sheik’s safe but he can’t do it as long as the Target is alive.
Objective #1: Kill Vigilante Policeman
Objective #2: Retrieve Detonators from Target
Objective #3: Give Detonators to VIP/Client
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Great idea, but in current circumstances it’s hardly possible
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