How did you guys get the rights to do a ‘Hitman’ movie?
Askarieh: I remember very specifically we were sitting in a Starbucks, in Sherman Oaks, talking about what we were going to do next. I told Danny that I’ve always wanted to do a movie based on the ‘Hitman’ games. I’ve always loved that character. I love the way he looks, the world of the game, the genre that the game was in, the international espionage, with this cold-hearted assassin, and it was a very uniquely cinematic game. I said ‘Look, I want to go after ‘Hitman’.’ Danny said ‘This is a great project, lets go after it.’ Literally the next day I called Eidos and said ‘We want to come up and meet with you guys and talk about ‘Hitman’.’ At the time there were other producers after the rights. We went unrelenting after it and didn’t give up. We told them that we were going to do it justice. We weren’t going to do a video game movie, we were just going to do a real movie based on the material. We then brought Chuck Gordon on board, whom I was doing ‘Spy Hunter’ with, and we zoomed ahe
