20 Movie Characters Completely Different From Their Source Material

There has always seemed to be an issue when it comes to bringing video games onto the big screen, and while there have been some success stories in recent years, the bad still far outweighs the good. Hitman, for example, has had two shots at being adapted into film, and both have fallen completely flat.

The list of missteps from both Hitman and Hitman: Agent 47 are far too long to list here, but when you can't even get the main character right, you know you're in trouble.

Agent 47 has always been an assassin with the secondary objective, after killing his target, to do it as quietly as possible. He is the Silent Assassin after all, and yet the films have made absolutely no attempt to convey that. Instead of actually adapting the character and the games, they have just thrown a bald guy in a suit into a generic shoot-em-up, blow-em-up popcorn flick.

Then, particularly in 2007's Hitman, Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) was made far too emotional. He all but fell in love with Olga Kurylenko's Nika Boronina, which has never been something associated with the character. He is the best killer the agency has, and he is that way because he is cold and emotionless, something that has never been successfully translated to the screen.