Hitman TV show 'dead in the water,' creator says

The Hitman TV series that had been planned for Hulu is dead, Derek Kolstad said. Kolstad, who was attached as executive producer and writer, called the news "a little bit of a dagger in the chest" and added, "Who knows nowadays, but it's dead in the water."

The project was originally announced nine years ago. Early talk suggested Hulu hoped to make the show a flagship series, and Kolstad had written a pilot script.

That outcome might be for the best: Hitman's two film adaptations were both execrable, and Timothy Olyphant—who played Agent 47 in the 2007 film—has been frank that it was a bleak spot in his career he only took because he needed the money.

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