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   Having created one of the best stealth-action franchises with their Hitman series, Denmark-based IO Interactive are currently hard at work on Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - a much more action-based game and, from what they have shown us so far, a much more cinematic one as well. Just take a look at last year's X06 trailer to see what we're talking about, if you haven't already. It's easy to draw parrallels between the game and several Hollywood names and titles (Michael Ironside and "Heat" come to mind, for instance), so the potential for a Kane & Lynch movie is clearly there.

   And to reinforce this assumption, Variety ran a story this week revealing that Lionsgate has already bought the movie rights to IO's upcoming game - despite it being... well, upcoming. The report says that the "Kane & Lynch" movie will be produced by Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter, and co-produced by Howard Sun.

   If the names ring a bell, it's probably because the same producers are the ones making the "Hitman" movie for 20th Century Fox, starring Timothy Olyphant as everyone's favorite bald, bar-coded Agent 47. And, as Variety points out, Askarieh is also producing the "Spy Hunter" movie for Universal, also based on a videogame.

   Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - as in, the game - is currently planned for PC and Xbox 360, with a release date vaguely set in 2007. And it just so happens that our local gallery has been enriched with a new batch of screenshots, snatched from the game's updated website.