The cinematic adaptation of IO Interactive's 2007 cult shooter Kane & Lynch remained stuck in development hell for years, cycling through multiple Hollywood heavyweights who were briefly attached to the doomed project.
Nobody 2 director Timo Tjahjanto recently took to social media to reveal his unrealized vision - a gritty treatment envisioned with Stranger Things' David Harbour and James Badge Dale starring as the infamous criminal duo.
"Never seen a script, but couple years ago when that property was still kinda hot, I wrote a short treatment with James Badge Dale and David Harbour in mind," Tjahjanto confessed. "Never gotten anywhere."
Tjahjanto's abandoned treatment joins countless other failed attempts to bring the violent crime saga to the big screen. At various points, A-listers like Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx circled the project before creative differences and endless script rewrites drove them away.
The production's troubled history took another bizarre turn when rumors surfaced about Gerard Butler and Vin Diesel potentially stepping into the lead roles - another promising iteration that ultimately collapsed.
Following the lukewarm reception to 2010's Kane & Lynch: Dog Days, developer IO Interactive abandoned the franchise entirely to refocus on their successful Hitman series, leaving Hollywood's multiple failed adaptation attempts as the only legacy of this doomed videogame-to-film transition.
