{"id":50244,"date":"2013-02-06T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T08:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=50244"},"modified":"2013-02-06T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T08:53:47","slug":"hitman-movie-reboot-gets-leading-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/50244-hitman-movie-reboot-gets-leading-man","title":{"rendered":"Hitman movie reboot gets leading man"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fox International Productions reboot of the big-screen adaptation of the Hitman series has got its leading man \u2013 Paul Walker.<\/p>\n

The Fast and the Furious and Into the Blue star will take over the role of Agent 47, which was previously portrayed by Timothy Oliphant.<\/p>\n

Skip Woods and Michael Finch (A Good Day To Die Hard) is writing the script, while Aleksander Bach, who\u2019s well-known for his work on commercials, will direct.<\/p>\n

The first Hitman film, despite receiving mixed reviews, racked up just under $100,000,000 at the box office.<\/p>\n

Shooting for the new Hitman film is expected to take place in Berlin and Singapore later this year.<\/p>\n

Source: Deadline<\/a><\/h5>\n

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WarCraft movie gets new director, production schedule<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

God of War movie taking a \u201cbold direction\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Which video game movies will survive Hollywood?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Splinter Cell movie gets its leading man<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Assassin\u2019s Creed movie gets studio partner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mortal Kombat movie reboot gets $40M budget<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fast and Furious star takes on the bar-coded assassin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":50246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,8696,8697,749,8692,8690,8693,8695,279,6402,8691,8694,5599],"class_list":["post-50244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-aleksander-bach","tag-fox-international-productions","tag-hitman","tag-hitman-2","tag-hitman-movie","tag-hitman-reboot","tag-michael-finch","tag-movie","tag-movies","tag-paul-walker","tag-skip-woods","tag-video-game-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50247,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50244\/revisions\/50247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}