David Harbour Considered for Kane & Lynch Movie Role

A big-screen adaptation of the original Kane & Lynch game, developed by Hitman studio IO Interactive and released back in 2007, was in development for years, with various Hollywood stars attached at different times.

In a recent social media post, Timo Tjahjanto, the director of Nobody 2, revealed that he had written a treatment for the Kane & Lynch film that would have starred David Harbour, known for his roles as Jim Hopper in Stranger Things and Red Guardian in Thunderbolts/New Avengers. "Never seen a script, but a couple of years ago when that property was still kinda hot. I wrote a short treatment with James Badge Dale and David Harbour in mind," Tjahjanto wrote. "Never gotten anywhere."

The Kane & Lynch movie feels dead in the water. Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images.

Tjahjanto can take some comfort in knowing that his treatment, a document prepared for a film studio from which a script is then developed, was just one of many ideas for a Kane & Lynch movie that never materialized.

For several years, Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx were attached to the project, but both dropped out as the film's script underwent multiple rewrites. Later, another version was reportedly set to star Gerard Butler and Vin Diesel in the lead roles, though this also never came to fruition.