Vin Diesel To Play Agent 47
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Join Date: 2003-09-06 Member: 20615Members
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A while ago someone started a thread about who would play Agent 47 in the Hitman movie. Apparently, Vin Diesel will. Most people thought Jason Statham, but he is indisposed with the second Transporter movie.
<a href='http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/15/news_6127535.html' target='_blank'>http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/15/news_6127535.html</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->When the sci-fi epic Chronicles of Riddick hit movie theaters last summer, it arrived alongside the release of its game tie-in, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay for the Xbox (and later for the PC). Though the film was tepidly received, the game was a success, enjoying brisk sales and earning critical kudos, including a nomination for GameSpot's 2004 Game of the Year.
Part of the reason for Escape from Butcher Bay's success was the fact that Riddick star Vin Diesel is a lifelong gamer. The actor--who has publicly professed his love for games going all the way back to the paper-and-pencil Dungeons & Dragons--formed his own game production company, Tigon Studios, to oversee Butcher Bay's development by Swedish studio Starbreeze. The seriousness with which he took the Riddick game project is evident in the final product: Butcher Bay's voice acting and storyline were hailed as top-notch, and its innovative stealth-action gameplay coined the term "first-person stabber."
Now Diesel is poised to blur the line between games and film once again. Today's issues of the Hollywood Reporter and Variety are both reporting that the burly, bald badass has signed on to play Agent 47, the titular assassin of Eidos' Hitman series, on the big screen. Both trades say Diesel has struck a deal to star in and executive-produce 20th Century Fox's upcoming Hitman film project. Charles Gordon (Die Hard) and Adrian Askarieh (the forthcoming Spy Hunter) will produce the project, along with Eidos vice president of marketing and communications Paul Baldwin. No director is currently attached, and the film would not hit theaters until 2006--at the earliest.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href='http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/15/news_6127535.html' target='_blank'>http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/15/news_6127535.html</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->When the sci-fi epic Chronicles of Riddick hit movie theaters last summer, it arrived alongside the release of its game tie-in, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay for the Xbox (and later for the PC). Though the film was tepidly received, the game was a success, enjoying brisk sales and earning critical kudos, including a nomination for GameSpot's 2004 Game of the Year.
Part of the reason for Escape from Butcher Bay's success was the fact that Riddick star Vin Diesel is a lifelong gamer. The actor--who has publicly professed his love for games going all the way back to the paper-and-pencil Dungeons & Dragons--formed his own game production company, Tigon Studios, to oversee Butcher Bay's development by Swedish studio Starbreeze. The seriousness with which he took the Riddick game project is evident in the final product: Butcher Bay's voice acting and storyline were hailed as top-notch, and its innovative stealth-action gameplay coined the term "first-person stabber."
Now Diesel is poised to blur the line between games and film once again. Today's issues of the Hollywood Reporter and Variety are both reporting that the burly, bald badass has signed on to play Agent 47, the titular assassin of Eidos' Hitman series, on the big screen. Both trades say Diesel has struck a deal to star in and executive-produce 20th Century Fox's upcoming Hitman film project. Charles Gordon (Die Hard) and Adrian Askarieh (the forthcoming Spy Hunter) will produce the project, along with Eidos vice president of marketing and communications Paul Baldwin. No director is currently attached, and the film would not hit theaters until 2006--at the earliest.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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not to mention muscular
hey, if they have technology to turn michael jackson into a white dude, they can pale up vin diesel somewhat no problem. and i think vin has the perfect voice for 47
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Vitiligo (or leukoderma) is the patchy loss of skin pigmentation due to an auto-immune attack by the body's own immune system on skin melanocytes. It frequently begins in late adulthood, with patches of unpigmented skin appearing on extremities. The patches may grow or remain constant in size. Occasional small areas may repigment as they are recolonised by melanocytes. The population incidence is between 1% and 2%.
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47 was pretty beefy himself. Diesel has just the right bulkage.
That's just the problem. In the game, you could either be ultra sneaky with costumes, or you could come in blazing with guns.
People will be expecting both.
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Vitiligo (or leukoderma) is the patchy loss of skin pigmentation due to an auto-immune attack by the body's own immune system on skin melanocytes. It frequently begins in late adulthood, with patches of unpigmented skin appearing on extremities. The patches may grow or remain constant in size. Occasional small areas may repigment as they are recolonised by melanocytes. The population incidence is between 1% and 2%.
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How is Micheal Jackson patchy at all?
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Vitiligo (or leukoderma) is the patchy loss of skin pigmentation due to an auto-immune attack by the body's own immune system on skin melanocytes. It frequently begins in late adulthood, with patches of unpigmented skin appearing on extremities. The patches may grow or remain constant in size. Occasional small areas may repigment as they are recolonised by melanocytes. The population incidence is between 1% and 2%.
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How is Micheal Jackson patchy at all? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well his plastic surgery is a little patchy...
The patches <b>may grow</b> or remain constant in size.
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Might want to read the entire summary before assuming. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
The patches <b>may grow</b> or remain constant in size.
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Might want to read the entire summary before assuming. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
you're crazy. the only disorder michael jackson has is a mental disorder.
Qoute For Le Win.
He wears an eye patch I know that much, but not in a place you normally associate them with.
Also his skin color was changed during a horrible experiment in which he tried to power some kind of demonic merry-go-round with the stolen innocence of young children.
Duh...dosn't anyone else watch E!
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Vitiligo (or leukoderma) is the patchy loss of skin pigmentation due to an auto-immune attack by the body's own immune system on skin melanocytes. It frequently begins in late adulthood, with patches of unpigmented skin appearing on extremities. The patches may grow or remain constant in size. Occasional small areas may repigment as they are recolonised by melanocytes. The population incidence is between 1% and 2%.
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Now tell me, that his facial structure changed due to another disease and i am really surprised.
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before he "suddenly" paled he already changed his nose and cheeks to look more white...and bang he paled..woot..what a happy event for someone who always wanted to appear white <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
That's just the problem. In the game, you could either be ultra sneaky with costumes, or you could come in blazing with guns.
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Damnit I better see some piano wire action when this comes out.
I wanted Jason Statham but oh well. Ill watch this when it comes out just for the heck of seeing Hitman the movie. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Now tell me, that his facial structure changed due to another disease and i am really surprised.
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I never denied he has had plastic surgery. Sadly, his has been botched and redone so many times hes kind of a lost cause.
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before he "suddenly" paled he already changed his nose and cheeks to look more white...and bang he paled..woot..what a happy event for someone who always wanted to appear white
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Interesting how he "suddenly" pales yet it takes <b>seven</b> years before he looks white.
My little cousin has this disease and he is slowly staying pale (he is white after all) and you only notice it during the summer, it slowly is spreading along his back, chest, arms and legs. Of course in winter, when one can not tan you don't notice it. Alot of older adults use makeup to cover up the "patches" so can't even tell. I don't see why MJ wouldn't do this considering he has the time and money to make it so.
Its amusing no one actually reads any educational links, and instead jumps on the bandwagon of some site that really is just speculation. (On all the conspiracies ever made) Really if you want more tabloid material just look up the Enquirer, they at least make it funny.
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Just replayed Hitman 2, and Disel could pull it off, but he does have to lighten his skin quite a bit, and he needs that bar code on the back of his neck.
hey, if they have technology to turn michael jackson into a white dude, they can pale up vin diesel somewhat no problem. and i think vin has the perfect voice for 47 <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
They didn't turn Jackson into a white dude, they turned him in a mockery of the human form.
What ? It's not spam !
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We;ve been over this, what, a billion times already? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->