Fox Yanks HIT MAN From Director Xavier Gens

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1. Kamina 10/09/2007 @ 8:43pm

   A bloodless, not so violent HITMAN film? There’s another reason to NOT see the film anymore…

2. David B 10/09/2007 @ 9:10pm

   Seriously guys, we have to start boycotting films like this. The only way the studios are gonna learn anything is if we stand our ground and simply don’t give them any money. That’s the ONLY way to hurt them. Yes, I know, I couldn’t help myself and I went to see “Live Free Die Hard” at the cinema, but I wish I hadn’t. That film became a hit and look where that got us…

3. Andrew Cunningham 10/09/2007 @ 9:21pm

   Promising trailers? Promising is code for laughably inept, right?

4. Caterpillar 10/09/2007 @ 10:14pm

   This is standard procedure at FOX these days. Just another reason to wait for an unrated DVD instead of going to see anything theatrically anymore.

5. chromega 10/10/2007 @ 3:53am

   Totally not going to see this film if it’s not Gens’ version.

6. Collin Armstrong 10/10/2007 @ 4:32am

   I thought the trailer looked fantastic.

   Who needs or wants or thinks it’s appropriate to have a PG-13 version of an MA game?  That dog won’t hunt, monsignor.  This is very disappointing and sad for Gens - who’s probably soured on Hollywood after this (and who can blame him).

7. ichithekiller 10/10/2007 @ 4:39am

   Sounds like something Harvey Weinstein would do.  This way when the dvd comes out they can have the vaginal version and then release the Director’s Cut Bloody unrated version.  I can’t wait to waste my money!!!!!!

8. sarkoffagus 10/10/2007 @ 5:31am

   Remove all the blood and gore you want, but you still have a movie about a hitman, who kills people for hire. That alone should prevent the studio from having a PG13 flick.

   I’m with you guys. I’m waiting for the DVD. It’s cheaper, anyway, and I won’t have some old guy hacking in my ear and a little bastard kicking my seat.

9. Peter 10/10/2007 @ 6:32am

   What a joke.  I’m with sarkoffagus on this one.  The premise alone should warrant a PG13, sad is the truth that Fox wants to minimize the visual violence but still sell to 13 year olds the conceptual violence of a man who exists only to murder other people for money.

   Hope it doesn’t hurt Gens career, but given where he came from I’d hope this would only give him more credibility.

10. Tory 10/10/2007 @ 8:13am

    There’s no way I’m go see this in theaters now. Oh well. I’ll just wait for the Super Uncut Deluxe Edition DVD.

11. LT Roberts 10/10/2007 @ 8:29am

    What a pathetic move on Fox’s part. It’s truly a sad moment for what looked to be a promising video game adaptation (that doesn’t happen all to often, if ever). An MA game should never have been targeted at anything less that an a hard R. Thinking anything else is greedy and purposeless and will only end up hurting their sales, not helping them. I’m with pretty much everyone else here… likely to never bother with the film now. It’s a cash grab and cash grabs can go to film-hell.

12. Rhythm-X 10/10/2007 @ 8:49am

    Wait for the unrated DVD - why would I want to financially REWARD Fox in any way for their ongoing stupidity?  I figure that like TRANSPORTER 2, the French version from EuropaCorp will be full-strength.  I’ll be importing that instead; Fox can just suck it.

13. petcor80 10/10/2007 @ 8:53am

    and here I was thinking hard R movies were getting back in fashion…
    makes you think what really scared them so much to make such a sudden and stupid move

14. Stefan 10/10/2007 @ 9:10am

    and I thought abridged movies were the joke only in this part of the world.

15. M@rc 10/10/2007 @ 10:56am

    The Hitman trailers are considered ‘promising’? Honestly, Uwe Boll could not have done much worse with the same material.

16. Caterpillar 10/10/2007 @ 1:13pm

    I guess this is the direct result of the box office success of the castrated DIE HARD 4.Gens is in very good company though, because not even a giant like Ridley Scott could stop Fox from truncating and PG-13-ifying his KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. I just find it funny that this comes from the same studio that is making a huge deal out of how hard R rated and gory their second ALIENS VS. PREDATOR flick is.

17. Swarez 10/10/2007 @ 2:16pm

    Of course Fox are going to marked it to 13 year olds since 13 year olds are the largest group that play the game. And don’t tell me that that’s bullshit since the games are MA cause we all know that don’t mean crap. Teens are the largest marked for computer games and of course the film is going to be marketed for them. Hopefully they will release an unrated version of it.

18. adaam_93 10/10/2007 @ 3:46pm

    I’m not trying to be a dick and question anyone, but this story hasn’t shown up anywhere else, unless they have sourced Twitch.  As well, we have no other form of confirmation from anyone be they official or not.  I just want some other sort of confirmation, nothing against you, but I really don’t want this to be true.

19. cancelbutton 10/10/2007 @ 4:55pm

    If this is true it is very sad to hear.

20. jackasscopycat 10/11/2007 @ 10:11pm

    Whoever handed the job to De Toth is a f***ing idiot and doesn’t know what hitman is. Those who made this decision are going to burn in hell for this. I will cry out of frustration that some vaginaheads, who probably listen to kidzbop on the way to work, did some p**sy a*s s**t like this to a movie BASED ON KILLING PEOPLE. ARE THESE PEOPLE F*****G RETARDED? lol I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY SOME GAMES WOULD BE CENSORED IN TRANSITION BUT SERIOUSLY, FOX....what do you not understand about the word H-I-T-M-A-N… I’ll give you the definition straight from dictionary.com

    hit man
    –noun Slang.
    1. a hired killer, esp. a professional killer from the underworld.
    hitman

    noun
    2. a professional killer who uses a gun

    you wanna censor the dictionary to for saying the word kill? you stupid pieces of S**T

    YOU ARE WALKING AN EXTREMELY THIN LINE WITH FANS AND YOU WILL LOSE IF YOU DO THIS. DON’T F**K THIS UP FOR US

21. jackasscopycat 10/11/2007 @ 10:23pm

    This all has got to do with money. These jackoffs knew it was going to be rated r and not that many older people play video games. So what do they do? they make it available to the teeny boppers (who would rather wait to see something genuine anyway) who are more likely to see the move “so they think”. But what will happen is that since this is based on a video game and not that many older people are going to see it anyway, guess what, the teeny boppers aren’t either because they had mommy and daddy buy the GAME because it was worth buying (full of violence and killing and originality). But now that the movie is a keystone light compared to a guiness, teeny boppers aren’t even going to waste their time watching a sesame street version of a game they couldn’t buy because of it’s content. so wouldn’t it make sense for them to just make it genuinely a good movie to begin with and just wait for the teeny boppers to buy it on dvd through mom and dad? F**k the box office, the dvd sales are always better anyway and if they do this they won’t make money in either the box office (like expected) and for damn sure not make money later on with dvd’s because fans will be so pissed off and remember what they did before even if there is gore because it won’t be the original version it should have been.

22. jackasscopycat 10/11/2007 @ 10:34pm

    Lets say your favorite beer was made alcohol free and tasted like s**t tomorrow so teenagers could buy it, how would you feel?

    First of all the teenagers wouldn’t buy it they would buy something that had alcohol. So now two groups of people aren’t buying it.

    Same scenario.

23. lobstereyes 10/12/2007 @ 10:37am

    this is bull-shit

24. jackasscopycat 10/12/2007 @ 11:43am

    yea, i do agree that David Bateson should have played the role of Hitman since he is the person the appearance was created from and he is the voice of mr. 47, but i wouldn’t mind the guy who plays it now to do it if they just make it gory. If they do go through with this pussified version i hope they put Bateson in there and release it way later so it will actually be worth watching somewhat.

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