Hollywood has flirted with adapting the original Kane & Lynch game - developed by Hitman studio IO Interactive and launched in 2007 - for years, with numerous A-list actors circling the project during various development phases.

This week on social media, Nobody 2 director Timo Tjahjanto disclosed he had created a treatment for the Kane & Lynch film starring David Harbour — best known as Stranger Things' Jim Hopper or Red Guardian in Thunderbolts*/New Avengers.

"Never saw a script, but several years ago when this IP was still red-hot, I drafted a short treatment envisioning James Badge Dale and David Harbour in the lead roles," Tjahjanto shared. "It never progressed beyond that stage."

Tjahjanto can at least take comfort that his treatment - essentially a conceptual blueprint used to develop full screenplays - joined countless other abandoned Kane & Lynch movie concepts in development purgatory.

For years, Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx were attached to headline the project before departing during multiple script rewrites. Subsequent iterations reportedly considered Gerard Butler and Vin Diesel for the titular roles, though these versions similarly failed to materialize.

Following the mediocre reception to 2010's Kane & Lynch: Dog Days sequel, IO Interactive ultimately abandoned the franchise to concentrate exclusively on expanding their Hitman universe.