Timo Tjahjanto should already be a household name in the horror world, having co-directed the insanely gory Macabre and the super popular V/H/S/2 segment “Safe Haven”. He’s also behind Netflix’s action-packed The Night Comes for Us, as well as May the Devil Take You, Headshot, and Killers, and his segment is a standout highlight of our new sequel V/H/S/94.
What’s next from Tjahjanto? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing a new take on the Steven Seagal action movie Under Siege, which was released way back in 1992.
The Warner Bros. project is being developed for HBO Max.
Umair Aleem (Netflix’s Kate) is writing the script.
The original movie was directed by Andrew Davis, with Seagal as “an ex-Navy Seal turned cook, the only person who can stop a group of terrorists when they seize control of a U.S. battleship.”
Gary Busey and Tommy Lee Jones also starred in the 1992 action movie, which spawned a sequel in 1995 titled Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. That film saw the return of Seagal as Lieutenant Casey Ryback, and there’s no word yet if he’ll be returning for the new movie.
Tjahjanto is also set to direct Last Train to New York, a remake of Train to Busan.