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John Woo’s dialogue-free Hollywood return Silent Night sets December release

September 24, 2023 by Ricky Church

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, […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Ricky Church Tagged With: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Harold Torres, Joel Kinnaman, John Woo, Kid Cudi, Lionsgate, Silent Night

The Essential Films of John Woo

November 1, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up an essential John Woo selection… John Woo has been a little quiet of late. There have long been rumours but finally it seems that his The Killer reboot is being produced by Peacock. This comes hot on the heels of his “comeback” movie Silent Night which should be out some time […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Better Tomorrow, Blackjack, Broken Arrow, Bullet in the Head, face/off, Hard Boiled, Hard Target, John Woo, Mission Impossible 2, Red Cliff, The Killer, Windtalkers

Omar Sy to lead John Woo’s reimagining of The Killer

August 8, 2022 by Gary Collinson

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 […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Chow Yun-Fat, John Woo, Peacock, The Killer

John Woo to remake The Killer for Peacock

May 7, 2022 by Gary Collinson

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 […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Uncategorized Tagged With: John Woo, Peacock, The Killer

When a Soundtrack Becomes Beautifully Contrary to Violence on Screen

February 1, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: bernard herrmann, Blade Runner, face/off, Hard Boiled, Joe Hisaishi, John Woo, Michael Gibbs, Near Dark, Reservoir Dogs, Sorcerer, Takeshi Kitano, Tangerine Dream, Taxi Driver, thief, Vangelis

John Woo to direct Joel Kinnaman in dialogue-free action film Silent Night

November 3, 2021 by Gary Collinson

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 […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Joel Kinnaman, John Woo, Silent Night

John Woo to produce Stan Lee-created Monkey King Chinese superhero movie

April 2, 2021 by Matt Rodgers

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 […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: John Woo, Monkey King, Stan Lee

The Problems Facing the Face/Off Sequel

February 17, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on the problems facing a Face/Off sequel almost a quarter of a century on from the original… Even in an ever changing film climate, with theatrical distribution facing unprecedented difficulties when coming out the other side of the global pandemic, the predilection for remakes/reboots/sequels continues. If it worked once it could work again. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: adam wingard, face/off, face/off 2, John Travolta, John Woo, Nicolas Cage, Paramount

Broken Arrow at 25

February 13, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at John Woo’s somewhat forgotten sophomore Hollywood effort, Broken Arrow, which turns 25… Remember Broken Arrow? Memory a bit hazy? Well John Woo’s second Hollywood film, a box office hit at the time, turns 25. In 1996 we were seeing a decided shift away from the kind of heroics […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Broken Arrow, Christian Slater, face/off, Hans Zimmer, John Travolta, John Woo, Michael Bay, Nicolas Cage, Samatha Mathis, The Rock

From Hard Boiled to Soft Boiled: Why John Woo’s masterpiece will never be matched again

November 1, 2020 by Amie Cranswick

Tom Jolliffe revisits John Woo’s action masterpiece Hard Boiled… John Woo had already made quite a name for himself in China, thanks to hit action classics such as A Better Tomorrow and The Killer. In 1992 he released the film which would see him transition from Hong Kong director, to Hollywood. The film was Hard […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Chow Yun-Fat, Hard Boiled, John Woo

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