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It's no wonder John Woo and Johnnie To were initially slated to direct it, but that fell through Soi Cheang's direction is more than up to the task as he uses the Walled City set to create an authentic, hyperreal comic book version of the Walled City with props from the 1980s to make the[...]

Peacock has released the trailer for legendary action director John Woo's remake of his classic 1989 Hong Kong action movie The Killer. In this sparkly new version, Nathalie Emmanuel plays Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known and feared in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead. When pulling off an assignment from her shadowy mentor[...]

This one is special, however, as it is directed by none other than John Woo This is the action king's first film in six years, and that is reason enough to get our asses into the theater, or at least it should be Add to it that this film is dialogue-free, and this might just[...]

He helped launch the international career of John Woo when he produced the latter's A Better Tomorrow and The Killer He produced and directed the subversive Chinese military hit The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014) In 2021, he produced and co-directed with Chen Kaige and Dante Lam the $200 million war epic The Battle of Lake[...]

Acclaimed Hong Kong filmmakers like John Woo, Tsui Hark, Ann Hui (who worked as his assistant before she became a director), and Sammo Hung are also on hand to talk about his vast influence on them and the entire industry. Still from "Come Drink With Me," featured in "King of Wuxia" in the 10th Old School[...]

Evans and his fellow action directors are well aware that viewers are here for the copious violence, with homages to Sam Peckinpah, John Woo, and cult Hong Kong & Italian filmmakers The gangster angst is just the spice on the curry After all, greed, business, and rage are there to drive the fights and ridiculously[...]

John Woo is stepping back behind the director's chair for the first time in a very long time and bringing Joel Kinnaman with him The film is called Silent Night, and it is currently being shopped around Hollywood for a buyer The hook for this one is intriguing: a big action film like the ones[...]

What were initial reports of a remake of the 1997 John Woo classic Face/Off turned out actually to be a sequel for Paramount After the report from Deadline Hollywood, Simon Barrett, Wingard's writing partner, took to Twitter to clarify the nature of the project, "Adam clarifying things a bit on Instagram… Face/Off is a miraculous[...]

You can thank John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat for that The John Wick movies wouldn't exist if they didn't make those Heroic Bloodshed movies of the 80s and 90s Quentin's first feature-length movie Shopping For Fangs featured a blonde-wigged hitwoman character inspired by Brigitte Lin's character in Wong Kar Wai's Chungking Express I just decided[...]

John Woo's Hard Target did that with Jean-Claude Van Damme Even the recent Blumhouse movie The Hunt uses that premise for political commentary and satire. Liam Hemsworth and Christophe Waltz enter into a deadly deal in Most Dangerous Game, courtesy of Quibi. Quibi's version is an update of the original to 2020 set in Detroit It's written[...]

Paramount Pictures decided to reboot Face/Off, the 1997 John Woo Gun-Fu action thriller with 22 Jump Street's Oren Uziel (The Cloverfield Paradox) penning the script The 1997 film starred John Travolta and Nicolas Cage as Los Angeles FBI agent Sean Archer and international terrorist Castor Troy, respectively, who end up trading identities. // Paramount Pictures Face/Off follows[...]

He is not only Quentin Tarantino's favourite director, but also a huge influence on directors like Walter Hill, John Woo, and Michael Mann He's most famous for stylish gangster and hitman movies featuring tough guys in trenchcoats and fedoras with pistols in their hands, distilling gangster and film noir iconography down to their purest form[...]

The plan was to get John Woo to direct and have it star Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger That last part didn't work out, but Woo did directed it with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, giving us Face/Off It seemed like such a good idea at the time, I even went and saw it in the theater. The[...]

Even reviews and write-ups for Stoker acknowledged Park Chan Wook's previous reputation for having made Old Boy or when they discussed John Woo's American films The Last Stand feels like a throwback to the way Asian directors made B action thrillers as Hollywood calling cards back in the 1990s: John Woo with Hard Target, Tsui[...]

If you enjoyed such maritime disaster flicks as The Perfect Storm, Life of Pi, All is Lost and… er, Battleship? You may want to check out John Woo's latest, The Crossing, which, as you can see from these new images via Empire, has all the onscreen watery danger you crave. Zhang Ziyi spent 5 hours a[...]

Rob Spalding writes for Bleeding Cool. Word from Cannes is that John Woo is going to be producing an English language remake of his second best Heroic Bloodshed film, The Killer. Bruno Wu's Seven Stars Film Studios (SSFS) has agreed to finance John Woo and Terence Chang's Lion Rock Productions The Killer, the English language retelling of[...]