David Harbour Eyed for Kane & Lynch Movie Role

A big-screen adaptation of the original Kane & Lynch game, developed by the renowned Hitman studio IO Interactive and released in 2007, had been in the works for years, with numerous Hollywood stars linked to the project at various stages.

This week, Timo Tjahjanto, the director behind Nobody 2, shared on social media that he had crafted a treatment for the Kane & Lynch film that envisioned David Harbour, known for his role as Jim Hopper in Stranger Things and as Red Guardian in Thunderbolts/New Avengers, starring in the lead. "Never seen a script, but a couple of years ago when that property was still kinda hot. I wrote a short treatment with James Badge Dale and David Harbour in mind," Tjahjanto revealed. "Never gotten anywhere."

The Kane & Lynch movie seems to be indefinitely stalled. Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images.

Tjahjanto's treatment was just one of several attempts to bring Kane & Lynch to the big screen, none of which came to fruition. For several years, the project had Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx attached, but both actors left as the screenplay underwent multiple revisions. Subsequently, another iteration was rumored to feature Gerard Butler and Vin Diesel in the lead roles, but this too never materialized.

Following the lukewarm reception of the game sequel, Kane & Lynch: Dog Days in 2010, IO Interactive shifted its focus entirely to its successful Hitman franchise, effectively putting the Kane & Lynch series on the back burner.