Agent 47 is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Hitman franchise, created by the Danish company IO Interactive. The franchise currently consists of six Hitman video game titles and the two novels: Hitman: Damnation and Hitman: Enemy Within. A 2007 film adaptation of the game was produced by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation with Timothy Olyphant playing Agent 47. In 2013, Fox International Productions plans to remakeHitman and change the title to Hitman: Agent 47. In this remake, Actor Rupert Friend will be taking over the role of Agent 47 after the role was originally meant for Paul Walker who died in a car crash on November 30, 2013.^[1][2]