Los Angeles - UPI
Zachary Quinto stars in a new trailer for Hitman: Agent 47.
The 37-year-old actor portrays John Smith, a character tasked with protecting Katia van Dees (Hannah Ware) from the titular assassin (Rupert Friend). Katia becomes the hitman's next target due to her father's involvement with the agent cloning program.
Hitman: Agent 47 is based on the Hitman video game series by IO Interactive, and directed by Aleksander Bach. The movie is a reboot of Hitman (2007), which was directed by Xavier Gens and starred Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47.
Quinto is known for portraying Sylar on NBC series Heroes and Spock in the Star Trek reboot films. The actor will appear alongside Uma Thurman and Peter Sarsgaard on new NBC miniseries The Slap, and is also scheduled for an Edward Snowden biopic by Oliver Stone.