Hitman developer says James Bond game will "hopefully" be the start of a trilogy

IO Interactive – the team behind the rather brilliant (in my humble opinion) Hitman games – hopes its upcoming James Bond origin story will be the start of a trilogy.

Speaking with IGN, IO boss Hakan Abrak said the team feels like it’s had “20 plus years of training for the agent fantasy”, thanks to Hitman. Indeed, Agent 47 is very Bond-like with his seemingly endless talents and ability to handle any weapon under the sun.

“But obviously 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 told the publication, adding one of the most exciting parts of the upcoming release is that it will be an original story for the British spy.

“So it’s not a gamification of a movie,” Abrak continued. “It’s completely beginning and becoming a story, hopefully for a big trilogy out there in the future. And equally important and exciting, it’s a new Bond. It’s a Bond we built from the ground up for gamers. It’s extremely exciting with all the tradition and all the history there is… to work on this together with the family [and create] a Bond that the gamers can call their own and grow with.”