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John Woo's New Movie Is Exciting - But Has A Near Impossible Challenge
Director John Woo is helming an English language remake of his 1989 Hong Kongaction classic The Killer, which is both very exciting but also potentially sets up problems for the movie. John Woo is teaming up with Peacock and Universal Pictures to adapt his story of an assassin on his last job, for an American audience. It's not the first time that The Killer has been targeted for the remake treatment. Walter Hill attempted it in 1992 with Richard Gere and Denzel Washington. Later John Woo unsuccessfully tried himself, first as a producer in the mid-2000s, and then as a director in 2018 with Lupita Nyong'o playing the assassin. While the latest news bodes well for The Killer finally being made, the original is a masterpiece of action cinema, and the remake will have an uphill battle ahead of it simply to justify its existence.
