Based on the top-selling, award-winning video game franchise, Hitman:  Agent 47 follows an elite and genetically engineered assassin (Rupert Friend), known only by the last two digits of a barcode tattooed on the back of his neck.  His latest target is a young woman on the run from powerful and clandestine forces, but the mission will bring startling revelations about the both the agent and his prey.

While he was at the Starz portion of the TCA Press Tour, to talk about his involvement with the upcoming filmmaker competition series The Chair (premiering on September 6th), Collider spoke to actor Zachary Quinto about his work on the upcoming film, due out in theaters on February 27, 2015.  He talked about how much he enjoyed shooting Agent 47 in Berlin, as it’s one of his favorite cities, how blown away he was by the specific visual style to it, that the action also has an element of character to it, and how he would love to be on Homeland with his co-star Rupert Friend, if he weren’t such a homebody.  Check out what he had to say after the jump.  

Collider:  What was it like to shoot in Berlin for Agent 47?

ZACHARY QUINTO:  I love Berlin.  Berlin is one of my favorite cities.  I had a great time living in that city.  I’ve been there many times.  I’ve probably been to Berlin 10 times.  One of my really good friends from college moved there in 2002.  It’s really great, and it’s thriving and growing and building.  I feel really grateful that I got to work there for that amount of time.  I felt really inspired by being there, for sure.  There’s a lot of great museums.  I would spend my downtime exploring the city and looking at different architecture in the neighborhoods.  I love it there. 

The Hitman video game is known for its great action sequences.  What will this film add to the action genre?

QUINTO:  There’s a style to the movie.  Óttar Guðnason, who is our D.P., and Aleksander Bach, our director, were able to do some amazing cinematographic work.  The cinematography in the film is enormously impressive.  There’s a patina to it that is really cool.  I haven’t seen it yet and I don’t know how it will come together, or the degree to which it will succeed visually.  But from what I saw on set, in the monitors, and the sequence that they put together as a teaser while we were making the movie, I was pretty blown away, especially knowing what the budget it.  I think they did some remarkable work.  Hopefully, there is an element of character to it, as well.  With Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Ciarán Hinds, Thomas Kretschmann and myself, there are some really cool actors involved.  I’m excited to see what happens with it, for sure. 

As a fan of Homeland, have you put in your bid with Rupert Friend to come do the show?

QUINTO: I would love to be on that show.  Although, I don’t know if I could do it.  They’re in Cape Town now, working down in South Africa, and I’m a homebody.  I’m grateful that I was able to work in L.A. for a number of years, and now in New York.  So, we’ll see.