Guardians of the Galaxy director wanted to make a Hitman film

Today we all know James Gunn as the director who turned Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy comic book to an awesomely funny, explosive and charming action/adventure-movie. His next project, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, is soon to be released in cinemas all over the world, but before that happens Gunn took to Twitter to tell the tale of how he once tried to get an R-rated, super-violent Hitman film made, but how he got turned down by the studio because they did not want an R-rated video game movie.

Gunn wrote the following on Twitter: "I tried to make a Hitman movie a few years ago. But the producers at the time didn't want to make it R rated, so they passed."

We kind of wish he had, though, because the first Hitman movie (the one starring Timothy Olyphant from 2007) was pretty terrible, and the more recent attempt, Hitman: Agent 47 (2015), was an improvement but still didn't do justice to the franchise it's based on.