Beginning tomorrow, the first trailer for Hitman will be shown before screenings of Live Free or Die Hard. This afternoon, the trailer also showed up on YouTube, click here to watch it.
Hitman is based on the popular series of video games produced by Danish development studio IO Interactive. The games star Agent 47, a mysterious, genetically modified hitman.
Vin Diesel was originally signed to produce and star in the movie, but he pulled out last year. He was replaced by Timothy Olyphant of HBO’s Deadwood, with Mission Impossible: II‘s Dougray Scott co-starring. The film was helmed by French director Xavier Gens and written by Skip Woods, who also wrote the John Travolta-Hugh Jackman movie Swordfish.
Hitman is scheduled to open in theaters October 12, 2007.
UPDATE 6/30/07: Yahoo! now has the trailer here, with options to view it in High Definition.
