The Killer, 2024. Directed by John Woo. Starring Nathalie Emmanuel, Omar Sy, Sam Worthington, Diana Silvers, Éric Cantona, Saïd Taghmaoui, Tchéky Karyo, Grégory Montel, Angeles Woo, Aurélia Agel, Elie Haddad, Hugo Diego Garcia, David Clark, Guillaume Kerbusch, Michaël Erpelding, and Fabrice Scott. SYNOPSIS: An assassin tries to make amends in an effort to restore the […]
John Woo remakes his own 80s classic with The Killer trailer
Peacock has released the trailer for legendary Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo’s remake of his 1989 action-classic The Killer. Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones) stars as the gender-flipped titular assassin made famous by Chow Yun-Fat, who is being pursued by Omar Sy’s persistent detective following an assignment gone awry. Woo directed from a script written […]
Movie Review – Silent Night (2023)
Silent Night, 2023. Directed by John Woo. Starring Joel Kinnaman, Kid Cudi, Harold Torres, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Vinny O’Brien, Yoko Hamamura, Anthony Giulietti, and John Pollack. SYNOPSIS: A tormented father witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang’s crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he […]
The Essential Films of John Woo
Tom Jolliffe offers up an essential John Woo selection… John Woo has been a little quiet of late, but the legendary Hong Kong filmmaker is set to make his Hollywood return this year with his “comeback” movie Silent Night, which has just received its first trailer this week. To the uninitiated, John Woo was once […]
John Woo’s dialogue-free Hollywood return Silent Night sets December release
Legendary action director John Woo is about to make a return to Hollywood after a 20 year absence with Silent Night, an action thriller that will be told entirely without dialogue. It is set for a December 1st release date. Silent Night stars Joel Kinnaman (For All Mankind), Scott Mescudi, most known as rapper Kid Cudi, […]
Omar Sy to lead John Woo’s reimagining of The Killer
Back in May it was announced that legendary Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo is bringing some Heroic Bloodshed to Peacock with an English-language reimagining of his action classic The Killer, and now comes word that Woo has found his lead for the remake. As announced by Peacock and Universal, The Intouchables and Lupin star Omay […]
John Woo to remake The Killer for Peacock
Peacock has wooed John Woo into directing an English language remake of his 1989 Hong Kong action classic The Killer, the streamer has announced. One of Woo’s early heroic bloodshed hits, The Killer saw Chow Yun-Fat starring as an assassin who ends up accidently blinding a nightclub singer on what is meant to be his […]
When a Soundtrack Becomes Beautifully Contrary to Violence on Screen
Tom Jolliffe looks at the effective use of contrarian music in films which show violence… There’s something about a great film soundtrack whether it’s the score or songs (or both). You can have a melancholic drama which will usually be laced with melancholic music. You can have the rousing action adventure with the John Williams […]
John Woo to direct Joel Kinnaman in dialogue-free action film Silent Night
Legendary Hong Kong director John Woo is returning to Hollywood for the first time since 2003’s Paycheck as he teams with The Suicide Squad star for the dialogue-free action film Silent Night. According to Deadline, the film will see Kinnaman playing a normal father who heads into the underworld to avenger the death of his […]
John Woo to produce Stan Lee-created Monkey King Chinese superhero movie
Legendary action director John Woo is set to produce a Chinese superhero movie based on an unpublished story created by the late Stan Lee. According to THR, the film will be an adaptation of Monkey Master, an unreleased comic book series which Lee created alongside his longtime collaborator Sharad Devarajan in 2016, and which tells […]
