Final 12 months, 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. However we’ve realized a bit extra in regards to the manufacturing — which had nearly completed capturing when the actors’ strike started.
The brand 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 “fantastic film.”
Roven additionally revealed that the new Killer was being shot in Paris, and that it stars Nathalie Emmanuel — greatest generally known as Missandei on Recreation of Thrones and as pc hacker Ramsey within the Quick & Livid franchise — within the title function originated within the 1989 movie by Chow Yun-fat.
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Roven additionally defined why Woo needed to take the uncommon (however not completely unprecedented) step of remaking his personal film:
Nicely, he was motivated by the Jean-Pierre Melville New Wave gangster motion pictures 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 motion pictures. He additionally got here up with an concept to make it contemporary. Within the authentic Killer, the good Chinese language 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 lady, the storyline turned fairly totally different. So, whereas it’s an homage to his film, it’s positively not a remake.
Within the authentic The Killer, Chow Yun-Fats performs a hitman who by chance blinds a younger lady, 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. Along with Emmanuel, the remake (or homage) may also star Omar Sy.
The Killer was in manufacturing when the SAG strike started; in accordance with Roven, the brand new model wants “someplace 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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