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Sean Bean Revealed as The First Elusive Target in ‘Hitman 2’
Last week, IO Interactive had teased the first Elusive Target for their upcoming Hitman 2. For Hitman 2, Elusive Target missions are timed weekly challenges, where players must assassinate a target to unlock exclusive content. For the first Elusive Target, people had suspected that it was Sean Bean.
What is undying may never die. #Hitman2 #KillTheUndying pic.twitter.com/4iLGFgZpwW
— HITMAN 2 (@Hitman) October 16, 2018
Lo and behold, they were right. Bean will take on the role of Mark Faba, a former MI5 agent turned freelance assassin. Nicknamed “The Undying”, Faba has a rep for faking his own death, which has resulted in him having a large bounty placed on him. For the first Elusive Target mission, appropriately named “The Undying”, players must stop Mark Faba before he can complete a contract at the Global Innovation Race event in Miami.
In addition to the new announcement trailer found below, players are also asked to vote on three different items referenced in the trailer to unlock an exclusive weapon later in the game. You can head here to vote on it.
The first Elusive Target mission is scheduled to release on 20th November, one week after Hitman 2 launches on November 13th for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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