The first movie of the summer based on video games, “Pixels,” was hot garbage by near-unanimous consensus (but hey, at least it got better reviews than “Fantastic Four”).
Okay, Hollywood: Can You Not Screw Up Another Video Game Movie? (Video)
Gamers are worried the trailer misses the point. Maybe we shouldn’t listen to them.
20th Century Fox
But if at first you don’t succeed … Here’s the latest trailer for “Hitman: Agent 47,” which comes out on August 21.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giNpP8VBIN8
Fans of the 15-year-old Hitman game series have been wary of the movie’s marketing thus far.
Hollywood has a terrible track record of adapting games to movies; the Hitman series previously got a mediocre adaptation in 2007. Maybe a little change of perspective will be just what the doctor ordered.
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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