The official facebook page and twitter handle for 20th Century Fox's Hitman: Agent 47 have gone live. To help kick things off they've released the first official image of Rupert Friend ("Homeland") as the title character.

is the second feature film based on the popular video game series. The first film, which opened in 2007 starred Timothy Olyphant and Dougray Scott . It made $100M at the worldwide box office against a meager $24M budget. The new film, is being directed by Aleksander Bach and written by Michael Finch, Kyle Ward and Skip Woods . It stars Rupert Friend Hannah Ware and Thomas Kretschmann . Of note: Friend replaced Paul Walker in lead after theactor died in a car accident."The story is focused a young woman named Katia van Dees who teams up within order to find her father and her true ancestry. They both discover that Katia is a genetically engineered assassin just like. Together, they fight the Syndicate to find Katia's father."