Last yr, Peacock revealed that it was remaking the seminal Hong Kong motion traditional The Killer — and that the movie’s authentic director, John Woo, was returning to replace his personal work. But we’ve realized a bit extra concerning the manufacturing — which had nearly completed capturing when the actors’ strike started.
The new particulars come from producer Charles Roven, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. (Roven additionally produced Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.) Roven was discussing his upcoming initiatives and particularly talked about The Killer, which he described as a “wonderful movie.”
Roven additionally revealed that the new Killer was being shot in Paris, and that it stars Nathalie Emmanuel — greatest generally known as Missandei on Game of Thrones and as pc hacker Ramsey within the Fast & Furious franchise — within the title function originated within the 1989 movie by Chow Yun-fat.
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Roven additionally defined why Woo wished to take the uncommon (however not completely unprecedented) step of remaking his personal film:
Well, he was motivated by the Jean-Pierre Melville New Wave gangster films that Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon starred in, and people have been clearly shot in Paris. And so he simply turned motivated about doing an homage to The Killer in Paris as a result of he was impressed by these films. He additionally got here up with an thought to make it contemporary. In the unique Killer, the nice Chinese male actor Chow Yun-fat performed the killer, however the killer on this film is performed by Nathalie Emmanuel. And by altering the dynamic to a girl, the storyline turned fairly totally different. So, whereas it’s an homage to his film, it’s undoubtedly not a remake.
In the unique The Killer, Chow Yun-Fat performs a hitman who unintentionally blinds a younger girl, after which feels obligated to revive her sight by paying for an costly surgical procedure — which he can solely afford if he takes one final contract killing. He’s opposed (and later befriended) by a cop, performed by Danny Lee. In addition to Emmanuel, the remake (or homage) will even star Omar Sy.
The Killer was in manufacturing when the SAG strike started; in keeping with Roven, the brand new model wants “somewhere between 10 and 18 days” to finish capturing. So as soon as the strike is settled, it shouldn’t be too lengthy earlier than we see this up to date motion traditional.
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