--- description: Starring Rupert Friend and Zachary Quinto title: Watch the Explosive Trailer for 'Hitman: Agent 47' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbc2a827f1b1a5ac/69877eb08e06016bf245a3b1/hitmanagent47.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch the Explosive Trailer for _Hitman: Agent 47_  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 11, 2015 5:16 PM CUT  This photo released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Rupert Friend, left, as Agent 47, in a scene from the film, "Hitman: Agent 47," in Singapore. (AP Photo/Twentieth Century Fox, Reiner Bajo) This photo released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Rupert Friend, left, as Agent 47, in a scene from the film, "Hitman: Agent 47," in Singapore. (AP Photo/Twentieth Century Fox, Reiner Bajo)Reiner Bajo—AP  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 11, 2015 5:16 PM CUT The Hitman video game franchise has become a movie again — this time with _Homeland_‘s Rupert Friend playing the role of the Agent 47 (last played on the big screen by _Justified_‘s Timothy Olyphant in 2007). Paul Walker was originally attached to the project, but after his death in 2013, the role went to Friend, whose jarring bald look gives his genetically engineered assassin character extra creepy vibes. Catch him, Zachary Quinto and an exploding helicopter in the trailer, above, and in theaters this summer when the movie opens on Aug. 28. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3705229/hitman-agent-47-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3705229/hitman-agent-47-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch the Explosive Trailer for Hitman: Agent 47","datePublished":"2015-02-11T17:16:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:20:09.402Z","description":"Starring Rupert Friend and Zachary Quinto","url":"https://time.com/3705229/hitman-agent-47-trailer/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbc2a827f1b1a5ac/69877eb08e06016bf245a3b1/hitmanagent47.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbc2a827f1b1a5ac/69877eb08e06016bf245a3b1/hitmanagent47.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rupert Friend","caption":"Rupert Friend","creditText":"Reiner Bajo—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3705229/hitman-agent-47-trailer/","name":"Watch the Explosive Trailer for Hitman: Agent 47"}}]}] ```