Variety confirms Hitman getting 'hard R' rating
by Alexander Sliwinski 
on Oct 11th 2007 10:00PM
Variety confirmed that
Hitman is not being watered down and will be in theaters with a "hard R" rating Nov. 21. This is following
rumors that Fox executives removed director Xavier Gens from
Hitman's post-production and would be watering down the hyper-violent film to a PG-13 rating in an attempt to get the kids. An ironic move considering the studio would have been targeting kids with a movie who aren't old enough to play one of the Mature-rated (17+)
Hitman games the film is based on.
Variety says both a source close to the project -- they wouldn't be Variety if they didn't have one of those -- and a Fox representative both
confirmed that "director Xavier gens is still on board, and the movie will absolutely come out with an R rating." Now we wait and see if the violence is reasonable in keeping with the
Hitman games (which the scenes
shown in the trailer make us doubt) or if it'll all be over-the-top action insanity making us question what Hollywood has done to the "silent assassin."
