Jamie Foxx (“Valentine’s Day”, “Ray”) has signed onto play Lynch in Lionsgate’s big-screen adaptation of the video game adaptation “Kane & Lynch: Dead Men”.

Screenwriter Kyle Ward revealed this as well as his involvement in the project on his Twitter account.

The film is being directed by Simon Crane, with Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter producing alongside Jason Blumenthal, Todd Black, and the Willis Brothers Co.

Bruce Willis was at one point attached to play Adam “Kane” Marcus in the adaptation of the Eidos Entertainment game, which is about a mercenary who is forced to team up with a murderous psychopath named James Lynch in order to retrieve a mysterious microchip.

No other casting or production information has been released yet.

Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on “Kane & Lynch”.

By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Kyle Ward)