Get Seans Bean and Pertwee both as rival buttons, and we could have some seriously gruesome deaths to enjoy. Not that I'm advocating Paul W S Anderson for director. Neil Marshall, on the other hand...
Neil Marshall would be an excellent choice for Director. Failing that, we could give Alex Garland the job.
The film's being directed by
Brian Helgeland. He made
Payback and
A Knight's Tale; his most recent movies were respectable period biopics,
42 and
Legend. I sort of quite like all his films*, so I expect I'll sort of quite like
Button Man when it appears next to the Liam Neeson flicks and
Triple Frontier on Netflix.
Helgeland uses the same actors on different projects. If you get lucky, that might mean Tom Hardy as Harry Exton in a UK-based production. If things don't go to plan, you might get Mel Gibson or Jake Gyllenhaal doing accents or using the US setting of the second book to tell the story of the first book.
* Except for The Sin Eater/The Order, a Heath Ledger film I'd never heard of until now.