{"id":5216,"date":"2017-11-14T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/309642"},"modified":"2017-11-14T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T23:58:00","slug":"io-interactive-has-cut-a-deal-to-make-a-hitman-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/io-interactive-has-cut-a-deal-to-make-a-hitman-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"IO Interactive has cut a deal to make a Hitman TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team behind last year&#8217;s episodic off-&#8217;em-up\u00a0<em>Hitman\u00a0<\/em>have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hitman\/status\/930173222137495552\">confirmed<\/a> they&#8217;ve cut a deal with Fox 21 and Hulu to produce a television series based on the game.<\/p>\n<p>This seems like a bit of potential good news for developer IO Interactive, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/300158\/IO_Interactive_goes_independent_secures_the_rights_to_Hitman_franchise.php\">went independent<\/a> in June after former parent company Square Enix abruptly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/297845\/Square_Enix_puts_Hitman_dev_IO_Interactive_up_for_sale.php\">decided to sell off the studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The split resulted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/298595\/Hitman_developer_IO_Interactive_makes_layoffs_to_secure_future.php\">round of layoffs<\/a> and some dickering over IP rights, but IO Interactive walked away with the keys to its\u00a0<em>Hitman\u00a0<\/em>franchise and has continued to produce content updates. The 2016 game recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/309261\/IO_Interactives_episodic_Hitman_passes_7_million_players.php\">surpassed 7 million players<\/a> (though chunks of the game were released for free) and IO has said it&#8217;s working on a second game.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/11\/hitman-television-series-derek-kolstad-john-wick-creator-hulu-fox-21-pilot-script-1202206934\/\">Deadline<\/a>, the new TV series will be executive produced by a team that includes &#8220;John Wick&#8221; writer and creator Derek Kolstad,\u00a0who\u00a0is also expected to contribute a pilot script. Of course, this won&#8217;t be the first time\u00a0<em>Hitman&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>been licensed to Hollywood: there were two separate films released in 2007 and 2015 that portrayed their own versions of the series&#8217; titular character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team behind last year&#8217;s episodic off-&#8217;em-up\u00a0Hitman\u00a0have confirmed they&#8217;ve cut a deal with Fox 21 and Hulu to produce a television series based on the game. This seems like a bit of potential good news for developer IO Interactive, which went independent in June after former parent company Square Enix abruptly\u00a0decided to sell off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}