10 Upcoming Sequels And Reboots That Will Destroy Your Faith In Cinema

10. Hitman: Agent 47

Hitman: Agent 47 is a reboot of Xavier Gens’s Hitman, the 2007 movie that starred Timothy Olyphant as a bald gun-for-hire on the run from the Russian military. It was based on a video game series developed by IO Interactive, so the intentions of the filmmakers were clear.

Gens complained that the studio wasn’t interested in his original ideas and just wanted a movie in the Jason Bourne mould, which is ironic as Agent 47’s trailer makes it clear that Fox are targeting a new audience - the comic book fans. There’s a genetically engineered hero (played by Homeland’s Rupert Friend) who’s capable of taking out his adversaries with bombs, helicopters and some astonishingly athletic gunplay and… well, let’s not get bogged down in plot.

When it comes to movies about killers with abnormal speed, intelligence and strength, Wanted did that whole yarn back in 2008, so we’re sure the casting of Thomas Kretschmann (who played James McAvoy’s father in that film) as one of Agent 47’s villains is just a coincidence.