Hollywood, if you are reading this, you can call off the search for this year’s Oscar winners now. That’s right, a clean sweep is on the cards because, according to IESB.net, Hitman 2 is coming out. Kyle Ward, writer of the upcoming Kane & Lynch, starring Bruce Willis, is penning the sequel, which is hoping to repeat all the brilliance of its predecessor and more.

What’s more, we are also promised Hitman 5 (game). I know! I forgot there were any video games for this franchise too.

Of course, my tone may be more than a little tongue-in-cheek here, but it is important to note that the first movie – produced by Adrian Askarieh, Daniel Alter and Chuck Gordon, who all return – garnered $100 million at box office alone and provided what even James Bond’s Quantum Of Solace couldn’t: a topless Olga Kurylenko – albeit for no apparent reason whatsoever.

So what about this game? Well, it is supposedly due for release by the end of 2010 and “will take Agent 47 in a whole new direction.” Anybody else getting that Max Payne feeling in their stomach?

Source: IESB.net