John Woo‘s 1989 action-thriller The Killer is getting a “reimagining” from Woo himself, and IGN reveals this afternoon that the brand new movie is coming to Peacock August 23.
Additionally, IGN has shared a few images from the film. Check out Nathalie Emmanuel (The Invitation) and Omar Sy (Jurassic World) in the shot above and see more on IGN.
IGN details, “Nathalie Emmanuel [stars] as Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead.
“But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler Finn (Sam Worthington), Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman, Jenn (Diana Silvers), in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee’s alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator Sy (Omar Sy), and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past.”
Action auteur John Woo returns to reimagine and re-direct his own classic with the brand new movie, written by Matthew Stuecken and Josh Campbell (10 Cloverfield Lane), as well as Eran Creevy (Welcome to the Punch, Collide) and Brian Helgeland (42, Legend).
Written and directed by John Woo, the original The Killer starred Chow Yun-Fat as Ah Jong, “a disillusioned assassin who accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded.”
A remake of The Killer starring Lupita Nyong’o was recently announced, but Woo had updated back in 2019 that Nyong’o was off the project and the script was being reworked.
‘The Killer’ (1989)
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