While the search for the actor who would play the role of Agent 47 in the movie-adaptation of Hitman continues, Lionsgate just bagged movie rights to another video game also, unsurprisingly, from Eidos Interactive.

Although the game is yet to be released later this year, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men caught the eye of the big-time movie distributor. The upcoming game doesn't seem to be making much fuss, so why is Lionsgate interested in it?

The shooter game has now-defunct mercenary Kane teaming up with schizo-freako Lynch who meet each other on death row. While waiting for their final sentence, both of them are kidnapped by Kane's former team, and together they must dig up treasures (and horrors) from the ex-mercenary's past.

Well, given that psychotic backstory of Kane & Lynch and the track record of Lionsgate ("Saw", "Hostel", "Blair Witch Project", etc.), you'd see the connection why they want to make a movie out of it. Slice-and-dice hardcore action? You bet. Now if only they find their actors in time...