John Woo is creating a “half-musical” as his subsequent undertaking, joking that will probably be his first film the place he received’t want a stuntman.
Once you consider John Woo, you consider motion. With motion pictures equivalent to The Killer, Laborious Boiled, Face/Off, Mission: Unattainable 2, and extra, the director has delivered among the biggest motion within the historical past of cinema, however his subsequent undertaking shall be an enormous departure. Whereas talking with Empire, John Woo confirmed that his subsequent film shall be a “half-musical” made in collaboration with Sparks, the pop and rock duo shaped by brothers Ron and Russell Mael.
“My subsequent undertaking is definitely a half-musical,” Woo mentioned. “I’m going to be working with the Sparks Brothers, who wrote the script and songs — we’re simply beginning work on some adjustments to the script.” The director then joked that this “shall be my first film the place I don’t want to rent a stuntman.” Woo has wished to deal with a musical for a while, even coming near helming an adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera starring John Travolta within the ’90s. Sparks just lately posted a photograph with John Woo, teasing the undertaking.
The hashtag mentions X Crucior, a undertaking introduced by Focus Features two years in the past, which has merely been described as a “musical epic.” I’m intrigued.
Woo’s newest movie was an English-language remake of his personal 1989 action classic: The Killer. The brand new model stars Nathalie Emmanuel as Zee, a mysterious murderer generally known as the Queen of the Lifeless. When she refuses to kill a younger blind girl (Diana Silvers) on the orders of her handler, Finn (Sam Worthington), her world implodes, and she or he finds herself on the run, attracting the eye of police investigator Sy (Omar Sy). Sadly (and maybe predictably), the remake has acquired combined critiques, together with one from our personal Alex Maidy.
“As evidenced by Silent Evening, John Woo nonetheless has one thing within the tank, however The Killer is a complete misfire in each sense,” Maidy wrote. “Whereas seeing how a filmmaker can understand an idea in two fully alternative ways is fascinating, The Killer stands out as the most pointless remake since Gus Van Sant’s Psycho. The Killer is the worst factor an motion film might be: boring. Keep away from this film in any respect prices until you’re a John Woo completist, and even then, you may be disillusioned that you just waited over thirty years for this.” You possibly can try the remainder of Maidy’s evaluate right here.
