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He'll play Bruce Willis' other half.

Actor Jamie Foxx has signed up to star as one of the titular characters in the forthcoming Kane & Lynch film.

That's according to Variety, which reports Foxx will play Lynch to Bruce Willis' Kane.

In the movie the pair will have 72 hours to recover a doomsday device and save the world. They'll also need to rescue Kane's wife and daughter, who are being held hostage by the people who sprung them from jail.

Shooting is set to start in August. The film is being directed by Simon Crane, previously best known for being a stunt co-ordinator on movies like Mr & Mrs Smith and X-Men: The Last Stand. Kyle Ward, who also penned the script for the Uncharted film, is writing the screenplay.

The second videogame instalment in the series, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, is due to hit the shops on 27th August. Have a look at the gamepage for all our coverage so far.

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kangarootoo #1 2 years ago

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Christ, this is going to be about as gritty as a bowl of angel delight.
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Darkjinxter #2 2 years ago

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Bruce Willis??
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Raz76 #3 2 years ago

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Doomsday device??
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Emth #4 2 years ago

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Jesus christ.
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mrpon #5 2 years ago

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Angel Delight??
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space_ace #6 2 years ago

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In the movie the pair will have 72 hours to recover a doomsday device and save the world

epic fail
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anomagnus #7 2 years ago

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this sounds amazing! I only hope it has a ton of explosions in it
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Restart #8 2 years ago

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Token.
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Saxo #9 2 years ago

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So its an action movie which share nothing but the name with the game.... i mean "In the movie the pair will have 72 hours to recover a doomsday device and save the world" .... Fail. And Jamie Foxx as Lynch. And a stunt co-ordinator as director. Yeah i can really se this movie taking the oscars.
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kincaide #10 2 years ago

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Whilst we are on this subject - Happy 55th birthday to Bruce Willis.
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alan_stealth #11 2 years ago

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bruce willis = great for kane.
jamie foxx = sucks for any role.
and save the world?
I knew hollywood would have to dumb this down, Kane & Lynch are a couple of mercenary's for hire and thats just not a PC plotline these days.
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UsernamePending #12 2 years ago

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I wonder if they've scripted the "Gerstmann" incident into the film.
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EugenesLair #13 2 years ago

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April 1st already?
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MadCaddy13 #14 2 years ago

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What the fuck are they thinking hiring jamie foxx as lynch??? I dint get it. Why call it kane and lynch when it's not really lynch? Lynch is quite opposite to being black. He looks like a damn redneck! This is so stupid. May aswell
Call it Kane and that black dude from Ray. God damned movies ruinin games.
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el_pollo_diablo #15 2 years ago

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Jamie Foxx is a massive, massive twat.

Edited by 1 at 19/03/10 @ 10:02
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LazyNinjaUk #16 2 years ago

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Jamie Foxx, doomsday device, save the world? These are all words that are about as far from what Kane and Lynch is actually about as one could get. I mean the game is about two sociopathic killers on a violent revenge trail, not saving the planet like G.I fucking Joe!!!
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LR100 #17 2 years ago

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Wouldn't Bruce Willis look better as Lynch? Stick a beard and some glasses on him then a back and sides wig, that's a bingo! Jamie Foxx though? Bloody hell what a terrible choice! Did the casting people even play the game, or at least look at a few pictures?
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schnide #18 2 years ago

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The fact that this is being helmed by a stunt director should have the alarm bells ringing in itself. This is going to be a screaming, steaming turd.
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Jayke #19 2 years ago

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Kane is obviously modeled after Ray Liota, and Lynch is a balding crazy huge white guy...
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chrisola #20 2 years ago

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Should be Channing Tatum and Sam Worthington.

In fact... that pairing could create a negative blackhole of on screen chemistry and acting ability that would invert the universe and make the movie good, while bringing about world peace.

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VibratingDonkey #21 2 years ago

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What a weird ass casting choice. Guess they thought the original Lynch wouldn't be particularly appealing to the audience. And the plot bit is a joke right? Because that sounds positively ridiculous.
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seanthejackal #22 2 years ago

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Matt Damon
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seanthejackal #23 2 years ago

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but seriously anyone expecting this to be remotely like the game should...Matt Damon
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Slipstream #24 2 years ago

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They've completley missed the point...this is an early April Fools, right?
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darleysam #25 2 years ago

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Is it a prerequisite now that all hollywood blockbuster plots feature the world being saved?
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crazyhorse174 #26 2 years ago

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Seems Jamie Foxx is linked with every other film these days - he's the Samuel L Jackson of recent years!

This is almost as bad as when I heard he was being rumoured to play Frank Sinatra in his biopic... Yes, really! There was some twat quoted as saying something like, "yes, he's black - but cool transcends race!".
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Duchessprozac #27 2 years ago

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What the hell is with Hollywood taking a game license and mutilating it to the point they as well not have bothered with the games license in the first place?

They've done it with Doom and Resident Evil and a whole slew of others and now they've done it with this. I don't give a toss about K&L but it still pisses me off that Hollywood rapes franchises instead of actually working with what they've just payed money for.

In this case, I thnk Kane & Lynch could have made a better movie than it did a game if they'd stayed close to the source material but as usual, they've pissed it all away.
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ShanksForTheMemories #28 2 years ago

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Is this Kane & Lynch or Lethal Weapon 5??? Films are getting more like those Orange adverts every day.
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man.the.king #29 2 years ago

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I was kinda hoping it would be Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton, like in "Bandits". They make a good team.
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TH3WICK3D1 #30 2 years ago

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why bother calling it "Kane & Lynch"? ...another game-to-movie bites the dust!
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