Second Hitman Movie To Be Faster, Furiouser, Walkerer

Lackluster Hitman: Ablutions sales and wider money woes at publisher Square Enix don't seem to have deterred their interest in doing something more with old Baldy McMurderpants. Or maybe money woes is exactly why they're happy to let a sequel to/reboot of the rather wretched 2007 Hitman movie go ahead.

Bland-faced Fast & Furious man Paul Walker will allegedly be the star, and commercials director Aleksander Bach will take the helm, reports Deadline of the Fox picture. The script is written by Skip Woods, the same dude who wrote the last mess, along with the reliably addled likes of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra and The A-Team. Apparently Woods is also working on the Kane & Lynch movie. He sounds like a budget Damon Lindelof.

Doesn't sound promising to me, but maybe I'm just too cynical about the long history of entirely shitty videogame movies handled by people who don't know or care about the subject matter and made purely for quick money by studios who bought the license ages ago and don't really know what to do with it now.

Also, original Hitman star Timothy Olyphant, so good at ill-contained rage in Deadwood, deserves to be so much bigger than he is. I fear his role in the Hitman movie did him far more harm than good.