10 Movie Franchises We Never Want To See Rebooted Again
8. Hitman
Movies like Hitman are the reason why video game adaptations are still struggling to overcome the negative stigma that's dogged them for years. You can't just take a popular game with a built-in fanbase, turn it into a terrible movie, and then simply reboot it and hope for the best once it fails. But they did it anyway.
2007's Hitman was a relatively low-budget effort that abandoned all originality and focused on weak dialogue, paper-thin characters and violence for the sake of violence, and while it managed to earn over $100m at the box office, the studio was essentially forced into rebooting after star Timothy Olyphant admitted he only took the role to pay for his house and had no interest whatsoever in coming back.
Six years later, we got Hitman: Agent 47 with Rupert Friend in the title role, which had a higher budget but made less money and suffered from even worse reviews, making the bald-headed master assassin zero-for-two on the big screen.
Undeterred, a TV series was announced in November 2017 with John Wick creator Derek Kolstad attached, but we've heard nothing from the project since, which is for the best as Kolstad should really focus his efforts on bringing back a killer-for-hire that people actually want to see again.