When Hitman developer IO Interactive revealed that it was working on a James Bond game in 2020, we saw it as an ideal bit of licensing: "Take out the bald assassin, stick in a British secret agent, and Hitman and its sequel are basically already Bond," we wrote at the time. But in an interview with IGN, CEO Hakan Abrak said IO's take on the character might be a little different from the fellow we're used to seeing on the screen.
"James Bond is a different IP. It's a huge IP. It's not our IP. It's actually the first IP that is not our original IP from [the] ground up," Abrak said. "But what's exciting about that project is that we actually got to do an original story. So it's not a gamification of a movie. It's a completely [new] beginning and becoming a story, hopefully for a big trilogy out there in the future."
