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Bruce Willis Close To Signing For Kane Half Of Videogame-Spawned Movie KANE & LYNCH??


I am – Hercules!!
From Wednesday’s Variety:
Willis will play Adam "Kane" Marcus, a mercenary who makes an unlikely alliance with a schizophrenic killer named James Lynch. The duo is forced on a mission to retrieve a stolen microchip. The vidgame has sold 2 million copies worldwide since its launch in November, 2007.
Willis (and "Bandits" co-star Billy Bob Thornton) have been rumored to be in the running for the project since November, but now we apparently have an actual contract drafted for Walter B's signature. Still no official word on Thornton.
Longtime stunt coordinator Simon Crane directs from a screenplay by somebody named Kyle Ward for Lionsgate.
I will rely on our gaming talkbackers to reveal whether or not the Willis character is the one on the left.
Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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Reader Talkback
First by evil twin | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:01:48 PM | never played the game by two fathoms deep | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:04:20 PM | I thought this was announced
like 4 months ago by Jackie Boy | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:04:25 PM | Old news? by Super Rabbi | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:05:23 PM | Ah yes, the game that revealed
ZDnet as sellouts by blindambition238 | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:05:46 PM | I Love Videogame Movies!! by ILostMyDrumSet | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:05:49 PM | The game was basically a bunch
of heists but it was fun by Jackie Boy | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:06:09 PM | At least it's not Uve. by Budcrud | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:07:20 PM | And while he can pull off the
look... by Jackie Boy | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:07:26 PM | Game had a great buildup. by harosa | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:08:13 PM | Kool by beetlegeuse | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:08:21 PM | Lynch looks like Paul Giamatti
with Tom Hanks' 'Da Vinci'
Hair by RyanMurray | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:08:51 PM | wait a minute by Jackie Boy | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:09:40 PM | I think it'll work by dejectedgeek | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:11:26 PM | Well... by James_O'Nasty | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:12:24 PM | Yay! by Lloytron | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:21:59 PM | Might be good by Gd00 | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:26:18 PM | But will it be better than Die
Hard 4? by The Dum Guy | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:45:24 PM | the game is shit by mr.brownstone | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:48:35 PM | Bandits should have been what
Kane and Lynch is by hallmitchell | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:54:02 PM | JACK BLACK is JACK BLACK in... by parallax_r | Jun 3rd, 2008 05:59:37 PM | Sorry for the cliche, but
isn't this really too
soon?.... by FlickaPoo | Jun 3rd, 2008 06:03:02 PM | I'm not really understanding
the hate by Jackie Boy | Jun 3rd, 2008 06:03:32 PM | Brunomac...hope that was
sarcasm by j2talk | Jun 3rd, 2008 06:05:32 PM | Hate comes from by Volstaff | Jun 3rd, 2008 06:07:57 PM | Bruce Willis is Blackwater... by cha_im | Jun 3rd, 2008 06:08:00 PM | RyanMurray, you're half right by Mullah Omar | Jun 3rd, 2008 06:15:31 PM | I'm waiting for the JOUST
movie by FlickaPoo | Jun 3rd, 2008 06:16:19 PM | When's Bill Murray by Series7 | Jun 3rd, 2008 06:17:54 PM | Microchip? What the fuck by Guy Who Got A Headache And
Accidentally Saves The World | Jun 3rd, 2008 06:18:27 PM | has to be Elrond Smith! by pubgrundy | Jun 3rd, 2008 06:35:43 PM | what ever happened to the
"splinter cell" movie? by JimmyJoe RedSky | Jun 3rd, 2008 06:42:09 PM | a film based on a video game
based on ersatz guy ritchie by newc0253 | Jun 3rd, 2008 06:47:34 PM | Hey, Guy Who Got a Headache... by ian n | Jun 3rd, 2008 06:52:03 PM | This game? How brazen. by Toonol | Jun 3rd, 2008 07:01:34 PM | Damn You Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI | Jun 3rd, 2008 07:23:56 PM | Everyone, settle down. . . by fivezero | Jun 3rd, 2008 07:39:11 PM | the game didnt suck enough? by BMacSmith | Jun 3rd, 2008 07:43:59 PM | needs the power of Quentin
Tarintino by theonecalledshoe | Jun 3rd, 2008 07:52:21 PM | Damnit, Billy Bob Thorton's
great, but... by The Grug | Jun 3rd, 2008 08:03:16 PM | Kane is on the left. Lynch is
the long haired guy. by MrMysteryGuest | Jun 3rd, 2008 08:10:07 PM | KYLE WARD by The Real MiraJeff | Jun 3rd, 2008 08:27:27 PM | Steve Buscemi as Lynch by EbertsFatThumb | Jun 3rd, 2008 08:29:12 PM | When Centauri died I cried a
little...really did... by FlickaPoo | Jun 3rd, 2008 08:32:39 PM | Fuck Walter B....and Die Hard
4 by Nuking the Fridge | Jun 3rd, 2008 08:34:36 PM | Um, Jackie Boy... by depalma25 | Jun 3rd, 2008 08:37:53 PM | bad game, good concept by lex romero | Jun 3rd, 2008 08:43:09 PM | almost criminally overhyped
crud game by G100 | Jun 3rd, 2008 09:13:45 PM | What about R-Type the flim ? by G100 | Jun 3rd, 2008 09:16:35 PM | depalma25 by Jackie Boy | Jun 3rd, 2008 09:47:11 PM | But either way this movie'll
have no balls by Jackie Boy | Jun 3rd, 2008 09:51:18 PM | Shenmue 2: The Movie by uVa | Jun 3rd, 2008 09:51:23 PM | fivezero by JimmyJoe RedSky | Jun 3rd, 2008 10:18:59 PM | "Giants: Citizen Kabuto" the
movie by JimmyJoe RedSky | Jun 3rd, 2008 10:21:20 PM | "metroid prime" the movie by JimmyJoe RedSky | Jun 3rd, 2008 10:24:21 PM | Willis is perfect and this
game has a good story by Orionsangels | Jun 3rd, 2008 10:44:14 PM | This games was a Mann
ripoff.......... by CyrusBlahBlah | Jun 3rd, 2008 10:52:42 PM | The movie could be better than
the game... by polyh3dron | Jun 3rd, 2008 10:54:54 PM | But yeah, get Michael Mann or
Peter Berg to direct. by polyh3dron | Jun 3rd, 2008 10:56:12 PM | wait, a stunt coordinator
directs?? lolololol by polyh3dron | Jun 3rd, 2008 10:57:28 PM | JJRedsky by fivezero | Jun 3rd, 2008 11:15:06 PM | Ballistic: McClane vs. Sling
Blade by Nasty In The Pasty | Jun 3rd, 2008 11:21:29 PM | Bruce! Don't do it! by Pop_aristocrat | Jun 3rd, 2008 11:30:27 PM | fivezero, my mistake by JimmyJoe RedSky | Jun 3rd, 2008 11:50:13 PM | Can we stop pretending... by ebonic_plague | Jun 4th, 2008 12:34:43 AM | Whatever happened to Monki? by Quin the Eskimo | Jun 4th, 2008 12:45:07 AM | Videogame movies WILL NEVER
WORK by Bass Bastardson | Jun 4th, 2008 01:01:43 AM | Video Games kill time...
unlike Films, TV & Comics then
? by G100 | Jun 4th, 2008 01:25:15 AM | "Longtime stunt coordinator
Simon Crane directs" ??? by Motoko Kusanagi | Jun 4th, 2008 02:12:03 AM | I love video games too, no
really, they're great,
seriously... by ebonic_plague | Jun 4th, 2008 03:02:15 AM | To me video simulators are
like starring in the movie by Orionsangels | Jun 4th, 2008 03:49:39 AM | Grand Theft Auto IV by PR1C3Y | Jun 4th, 2008 04:28:39 AM | Didn't Brucie and Billy do
this already!? by FILMFUNK | Jun 4th, 2008 05:35:14 AM | The problem with Game to Movie
is simple by Lost Jarv | Jun 4th, 2008 05:46:53 AM | Jarv by VXXXJesterXXXV | Jun 4th, 2008 06:28:18 AM | The problem with video game
movies. by Knuckleduster | Jun 4th, 2008 06:40:34 AM | Kane & Lynch by Ckuouka | Jun 4th, 2008 06:41:27 AM | was it? by Lost Jarv | Jun 4th, 2008 06:53:55 AM | ohhhh i see now by Bouncy X | Jun 4th, 2008 06:54:53 AM | Good morning Jarv by Abominable Snowcone | Jun 4th, 2008 07:33:19 AM | Didn't this get like the best
scores ever? by Damien Chowder | Jun 4th, 2008 10:50:51 AM | PC Gamer also gave it a bad
review by Freakemovie | Jun 4th, 2008 10:52:02 AM | So tired of video games as
movies by Jabroni | Jun 4th, 2008 10:52:46 AM | Once more 'cause 3 is comedy
gold by Marvinatmiddleage | Jun 4th, 2008 11:15:53 AM | Well THIS VideoGame/Movie does
look shit. So fire away by G100 | Jun 4th, 2008 11:34:42 AM | Isn't that 'The Undertaker'
from WWE? by Darth Macchio | Jun 4th, 2008 11:34:48 AM | "The duo is forced on a
mission to retrieve a stolen
microchip" by skimn | Jun 4th, 2008 12:04:53 PM | but who will play Jeff
Gerstmann? by Curious_Jorge | Jun 4th, 2008 02:55:15 PM | Wasn't this game shit? by PirateEmery | Jun 4th, 2008 03:39:31 PM | Video games ALWAYS make the
best movies. by thedarklinglord | Jun 4th, 2008 05:01:04 PM | Headline : Bruce Willis New
Cinematic Dung by brakula | Jun 4th, 2008 05:14:01 PM | skimn RE:It Takes A Thief by j2talk | Jun 4th, 2008 05:42:34 PM | skimn RE:It Takes A Thief by j2talk | Jun 4th, 2008 05:45:23 PM | Am I The Only Person Who
Enjoyed This? by PR1C3Y | Jun 4th, 2008 07:28:17 PM |
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