After Two Failed Movies, A HITMAN TV Series Is In The Works From Fox And Hulu

What is it about this property that keeps people investing in adaptations of it?

I always thought with movies repeatedly failing video game adaptions, a TV series would work.

Max Payne would have been an amazing tv series.

Is there an echo in here? Olyphant's version was quite good, the new one was absolutely terrible though. Hitman should have been done as a TV show to begin with to be fair.

They can make something pretty cool out of Hitman, methinks. I say, give it a go.

That actually may work. We just need to have essentially a puzzle on how to make the absolutely best kill and the buildup. That should be the focus. It’s what worked for the games.

First of all, just because there are two bad movies based on Hitman doesn't mean it can't work as a movie. The movies are bad because A. They are poorly written directed (Skip Woods is an awful writer) and B. because they stray so far from the Hitman mythos. The first one with Olyphant literally changes everything about Hitman that makes Hitman what it is. Imagine if there was a Batman movie that took away the death of his parents and gave him powers. That's the Batman equivalent of the first Hitman movie. The movies failed because big studios don't really care for the audience, they just want to use franchise names to sell their movies. On TV there's more room for creativity, tv producers are more willing to take risks than movie studios these days. Hitman's level structure does make it suited for TV, but to say a good Hitman movie can't be made is laughable. Since all these reports suggest this show will use the Hitman mythology, there is hope. Obviously, huge Hitman fan here lol.