Actor Simu Liu, known for his role as the protagonist in Marvel movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, has expressed a desire to play the leading role in a movie adaptation of seminal game Sleeping Dogs.
Taking to social media platform X, Liu spoke about his experience in pitching a movie adaptation of Sleeping Dogs to film executives that don’t understand the title.
He also that he would like a sequel for the title down the line. “So few film projects make it from pitch phase to greenlight,” said Liu in the post. “Pitching execs who don’t understand the game has been tiring.
Everyone’s overwhelming love of Sleeping Dogs here has really given us life!” “First a movie, then a sequel game for everyone… that’s always been the dream.” The last time we heard anything about a Sleeping Dogs movie was all the way back in 2018, with action star Donnie Yen saying that the movie was still under production.
More recently, however, Yen has said that the movie basically dead at this point. “I spent a lot of time and did a lot of work with these producers, and I even invested some of my own money into obtaining the drafts and some of the rights,” said Yen in a recent interview with Polygon. “I waited for years.