Classic crime action Hong Kong film ‘The Killer’ will make a new American version, the latest announcement starring: Omar Sy (‘Intouchables’ ‘Lupin’).
John Woo returns to direct and produce the film in Universal, which will be online next year streaming Peacock.
The original film was released in 1989, starring Chow Yun Fat, Danny Lee and others, about a hitman in the execution of the mission accidentally injured a singer girl led to her blindness, he in order to raise money to help her treatment and then take up the task, but unexpectedly by the employer against the water, was chased on the way to meet the police detective ordered to come to investigate, the two sympathize with each other, allied against the gangsters.
U.S. version by Matthew Stuecken & Josh Campbell (’10 Cloverfield Lane’), Eran Creevy (), Brian Helgeland () wrote the script, the plot is not revealed
