A few years ago, Fox 21 and Hulu announced that Derek Kolstad, ‘creator of John Wick’, was going to write the launch for a TV series based on the best-selling ‘Hitman’ video game franchise.
Although the recent trilogy of games has been highly acclaimed, the two “Hitman” movies so far – one with Timothy Olyphant, the other with Rupert Friend – have been disasters.
One thing both have in common, however, is to make the Agent 47 look right – namely, completely naked with a barcode on the back of his head, a dark suit with a red tie and a bit of a nice gun.
Kolstad recently spoke with Collider while doing promotional rounds for Marvel’s “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” series (which he also wrote) and talked more about his work writing the first two lyrics for the franchise, which more like Jason Bourne of: the sounds of it. However, it will also have classic influences from old cinemas:
‘I did it a lot like The Third Man meets Three Days in the Condor. You are introduced to a man who is very much the hit we know of the games, but he has a full head of hair and he is independent. He has a handler, he has a life, he’s very much such an assassin in the early 80’s, late 70’s that we read about in the books, right?
But at some point he gets a concert, and the concert reveals the reality that no choice he ever made was his own. And of course, the show ends with him at a mirror and finds it hidden under his skin, the barcode.
So it suddenly becomes a mystery of ‘who am I, really?’ [Jason] Bourne did it excellently. It’s more ‘what’s true about the people in my life? What is manufactured, what are thoughts, etc. ‘It’s the nature versus nurturing of it all. ”
Kolstad is also an executive producer of the series, but he is not clear when that will happen, as they are still looking for a showloper. Kolstad is not going to accept the role, but says he will work with the showrunner because: ‘I want to help build the car, man the pit, hand over the keys to the driver and just be there to refuel. to fill and take care of the car. ”