Jamie Foxx will star in the Kane & Lynch movie, says screenwriter Kyle Ward.
The news comes via a status update on Ward's Twitter account, which has since been deleted. "Done deal... Jamie Foxx is in," he wrote. The scribe then clarified that Foxx has been cast as Lynch, the mentally unstable bank robber from Eidos' 2007 co-op shooter. Bruce Willis had already been tapped to take on the role of Kane in the movie for Lionsgate.
Kane & Lynch is best known among gamers not for being a great game, but for a controversy surrounding the ouster of GameSpot critic Jeff Gerstmann after he gave it a 6/10 score. Some said that Eidos, a GameSpot advertiser, used the leverage of its ad dollars to make things uncomfortable for the writers.
A sequel titled Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is due out later this year on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
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