Out of the many properties Hollywood is revisiting for franchise potential, 2007’s Timothy Olyphant-led Hitman seems like a strange choice, but 20th Century Fox went ahead with a reboot and today brings the first trailer. Led by Homeland‘s Rupert Friend, he plays a killing machine who attempts to stop a corporation who is producing more killing machines.
Despite the fairly generic plot, when it comes to late-August fare, one looks like they could do worse than what’s on display in the first trailer. Featuring a good deal of slow-motion, there also looks to be some inventive action even though director Aleksander Bach has yet to prove himself. Also starring Zachary Quinto, Hannah Ware, Thomas Kretschmann, Dan Bakkedahl, and Ciaran Hinds, check out the trailer and poster below.
HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research—and forty-six earlier Agent clones—endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47’s past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe.
Hitman: Agent 47 opens on August 28th.