Gerard Butler Eyeing 'Kane & Lynch', Vin Diesel Might Join Him

When it comes to video game adaptations, my knowledge pretty much stops at Mortal Kombat and that God-awful Street Fighter movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme (seriously, did anyone read the script before doing that movie?  Was there even a script?).  Anyway...

Word comes today that Nu Image/Millenium Films are reviving their on again, off again video game movie adaptation of Kane & Lynch, which follows Kane, a death row inmate, and Lynch, a schizophrenic killer, who team up to retrieve a stolen fortune.

Gerard Butler is said to be in-talks for the role of Kane while an offer has apparently been sent out to Vin Diesel for the role of Lynch.

Now I'm not at all familar with the game, but doesn't it seem as if the guy suffering from schizophrenia should be played by the 'actor' (Butler) and the prison inmate by the 'brawn' (Diesel) and not the other way around?

F. Gary Gray - the man who directed Butler in 2007's fantastic Law Abiding Citizen - is aboard the project to direct.  He was actually attached to helm the film years back but obviously things didn't work out then, hopefully they do now at least.

An on-screen team up of Gerard Butler and Vin Diesel actually sounds pretty cool, unless of course Diesel feels his 'talents' are better served doing another five Fast & Furious movies (you never know).

Source:  Heat Vision