John Woo Set To Direct English Remake Of His Own Movie The Killer
John Woo is set to direct an English remake of his own film, The Killer. Woo's career began with 1970s Hong Kong action films. He started to garner attention from American audiences in the 1980s, with movies like A Better Tomorrow and The Killer. Audiences are likely familiar with Woo's American action movies, including Broken Arrow, Face/Off, and Mission: Impossible II. Now, he is set to revisit The Killer with an English language remake.
In a press release from Peacock, it was announced that «celebrated action auteur John Woo returns to reimagine and direct his own classic, The Killer.» The original 1989 film, starring Chow Yun-Fat, Sally Yeh, and Danny Lee, follows an assassin who accidentally blinds a nightclub singer, prompting him to take another job, killing a high-level triad boss, to pay for a procedure that will restore the singer's sight. A gender-swapped remake of The Killer was planned in 2018, with Lupita Nyong’o set to star. However, that film never got off the ground, with Nyong'o stepping away in 2019 amidst script rewrites.
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Details about the remake are still scarce, but with Woo being the driving force behind the film, The Killer is likely to adhere close to the source material, with the director spicing up the action thanks to advancements in filmmaking. The Killer currently doesn't have a release date, but it will stream exclusively on Peacock sometime next year. Further details on the English remake of The Killer will be forthcoming as the project develops.
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