Long-Lost Kane & Lynch Movie Concept Had Stranger Things, Thunderbolts* Star David Harbour in Mind

A large surface mentation of the archetypal Kane & Lynch game, developed by Hitman workplace IO Interactive and released backmost successful 2007, was connected the cards for years, with assorted Hollywood stars attached astatine 1 constituent oregon another.

Writing connected societal media this week, Nobody 2 manager Timo Tjahjanto revealed that helium had written a attraction for the Kane & Lynch movie that would person starred David Harbour — that's Stranger Things' ain Jim Hopper, oregon Red Guardian/Florence Pugh's dada successful Thunderbolts*/New Avengers.

"Never seen a script, but mates years agone erstwhile that spot was inactive kinda crap hot. I wrote a abbreviated attraction with James Badge Dale and David Harbour successful mind," Tjahjanto wrote. "Never gotten anywhere."

The Kane & Lynch movie feels dormant successful the water. Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images.

Tjahjanto tin instrumentality immoderate solace, perhaps, successful knowing that his attraction — a briefing papers prepared for a movie workplace from which a publication is past prepared — was 1 of galore ideas for a Kane & Lynch movie that ne'er saw the airy of day.

For respective years, Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx had been attached to the project, though some dropped retired arsenic the film's publication went done aggregate rewrites.

Later, different mentation of the task was reportedly acceptable to prima Gerard Butler and Vin Diesel successful its rubric roles, though this ne'er amounted to thing either.

Ultimately, aft an mean crippled sequel — 2010's Kane & Lynch: Dog Days — IO Interactive stepped backmost from the bid and refocused wholly connected its Hitman franchise.

Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images.

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