Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has said he once pitched a Hitman movie, but it never saw the light of day.
“Thank God, because I would have never been able to do [Guardians of the Galaxy] if they had said yes,” he wrote.
However, Friend’s more recent Hitman film was met with fairly lacklustre reviews on its release, and its sequel was reportedly scrapped following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox.
Sharing the news on Twitter, Gunn revealed he made the pitch for a film focused on IO Interactive’s bald and ever adaptable assassin just “weeks” before he got the Guardians of the Galaxy gig.