Timothy Olyphant is getting quite the reputation for picking up roles vacated by other actors. He landed the part as the main villain in LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD when Jeffrey Wright dropped out and now he has been cast as the lead in a proposed HITMAN film based on the popular (Are they? I'm not really up on what games are popular anymore, "Frogger" sure was sweet) series of video games.
For a while the role of the kill-happy Agent 47 had Vin Diesel's name on it. Diesel's loss is his A MAN APART co-star Olyphant's gain who might be able to use this chance to jump into leading man status. Not sure why Diesel isn't attached to the project, perhaps he's more attached to being irrelevant.
Low blow, I know.
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