Agent 47 based on the video game hitman is now getting a prequel comic from boom. Using his xray vision and telepathy, tommy has an upperhand on the criminal element he removes for a cost. President of development stephen christy and hitman. The dividing difference is whether youre okay with a liveaction video game in all respects rather than just a movie inspired by one. Agent 47 is a 2015 americangerman action thriller film directed by alkaander bach and based on the hitman video game series. The video game franchise hitman is getting a reboot of sorts, and the first footage from hitman. Agent 47, to comic con today via an understated panel that featured actors zachary quinto and hannah ware. In it, the eponymous agent 47 will hunt an adversary, with the conclusion of the comic tying in. Birth of the hitman sebela, christopher, lau, jonathan on. Diana and the agencys ethics are confusing as hell in the comic. Read dark horse digital comics on your internetconnected laptop and desktop. Agent 47 was revealed at san diego comiccon earlier this. Is this film an improvement over the last outing agent 47 had with hitman, equally disappointing or as most critics and detractors have claimed even worse.
Agent 47 takes aim with new trailer kevin melrose jun 23, 2015 rupert friend, zachary quinto and hannah ware star in the franchise reboot that sends agent 47 after a megacorporation that plans to create an army of killers. Birth of the hitman, 47 had formed a brotherly relationship with a clone named 6 and together they were an impressive team of assassins. Other members of the cast include zachary quinto, hannah ware, and emilio rivera. When diana is tasked with assisting her hitman in taking out the same target as 47 has been hired to kill, these two lives will finally intersect in an explosive finale. Codename 47 2000 and most recently in hitman 2 2018. Agent 47 birth of the hitman 2017 comic books mycomicshop. Agent 47 or simply 47 is the codename of the protagonist and antihero of the hitman video game franchise developed by danish developer io interactive ioi.
At one point in their childhood on march 23, 6 convinced 47 to run away from the asylum with him and they took refuge in a small farming village before being apprehended again. Agent 47, paul walkers passing, largescale and highstakes action, and the international production by christina radish july. Footage from the video game adaption starring homeland. Hitman, a series of thirdperson stealth action games by danish developer io interactive. Contemporary video game plots can be intricate, heavy things, comprising thousands of manhours of plot and backstory development, embodied in a. Io interactives longrunning video game series the hitman is returning to comic books for a new year one style prequel for both agent 47 and his handler, diana burnwood. Featured as the antihero protagonist of all the hitman video games developed by io interactive, a few comics published by dynamite entertainment and. Im a massive hitman fan so im really looking forward to absolution, im sure itll. Comic book fans are encouraged to reserve copies of agent 47. Birth of the hitman is a prequel comic book miniseries for the videogame franchise. The comic book series was released on november 1st, 2017, and focuses on 47 and his soontobe handler, diana burnwood, and their separate exploits before they joined the ica. He appears in all games in the series, as well as comics published by dynamite entertainment and two live action films. It stars rupert friend as agent 47, a role originally played by timothy olyphant in the previous hitman film.
The administrator of this site cannot be held responsible for what its users post, or any other actions of its users. Hitman the video game gets a comic adaption and origin. Adapting a popular video game into a movie sounds like it would be an easy task. Agent 47 the perfect assassin hitman explored youtube. This particular project came from the minds of boom. Agent 47 will be getting a comic tiein that serves as a prequel to the movies story. Birth of the hitman will delve into the origins of agent 47 and is directly connected to the overarching story that.
Agent 47 the studios upcoming reboot of the hitman video game movie franchise to the 2014 san diego comiccon, but has taken a slightly different tact with sdcc 2015. Dynamite entertainment hires agent 47 comic shop locator. Browse issues from the comic book series, agent 47. Desanto, art by jesus hervas and a cover by toni infante. Hitman agent 47 is gunless but not defenseless in first clip. Agent 47, finally free of the institute, begins to build a life as a freelance assassin. He is the culmination of decades of research and fortysix earlier agent clones endowing him with unprecedented strength. Agent 47, there was more at stake than just transferring characters and an already. Agent 47 is getting a oneshot prequel comic courtesy of boom. Agent 47 the film 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. Agent 47 artwork assassins cartoons concept art guns hitman absolution police rain vid widescreen desktop mobile iphone android hd wallpaper and desktop.
Here we have agent 47 at his best, i got the idea from the 16 minute gameplay footage of hitman absolution. Studios and twentieth century fox home entertainment. An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry. Studios partnership with fox, which givs the studio firstlook rights on boom. Agent 47 will be directly connected to the overarching story in the ongoing hitman game and the comic book is instrumental in our continued goal to expand and reimagine the hitman universe, said michael vogt, lead writer on hitman. As 14yearold diana begins a mission to track down the people who killed her parents, the one responsible, 47, is struggling to free himself and his brother, 6, from the mysterious institute.
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