STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS star, Zachary Quinto, he who is the modern day incarnate of Spock, has joined the cast of AGENT 47, the reboot/ sequel to the video game adaptation HITMAN. Quinto joins the already cast Rupert Friend, who is placed in the title role, according to Deadline. Friend replaced the late Paul Walker who died in November in a horrific car accident.
Ad helmer Aleksander Bach directs the film from a script by Skip Woods and Michael Finch, with shooting kicking off in March.
HITMAN was the first outing for the video game antihero, played by Timothy Olyphant and directed by Xavier Gens all of the way back in 2007. The film didn’t get great reviews back then, but it did manage to pull in a reasonable $100 million from across the globe.
Source: Deadline
