Rewind to March 2014, and in Berlin’s CCC film studios, action is underway on Hitman: Agent 47; a ground-up movie reboot for the eponymous character. With Rupert Friend now in the title role, this is an entirely different beast to the critically-panned 2007 film, although it does share a producer, Adrian Askarieh, who picked up the rights during Hitman’s heyday, when videogame movies were well out of favour. He’s now hoping that this film, along with the likes of Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell, will help change public opinion to the extent that comic-book adaptations have been managing since the turn of the century.
On set, no one will reveal a budget, although a publicist explains that it’s, “not crazy expensive,” which means that it’s a very lean shoot for…
