‘Hard-Boiled’ getting a ‘total reinvention’

STRANGLEHOLD

While speaking to Toronto’s Collin Geddes for a Twitch Film exclusive, John Woo’s longtime partner Terence Chang revealed the latest plans for a new HARD-BOILED movie and it’s not going to be a sequel as had previously been developed. Instead, Chang says that writers Jeremy Passmore and Andre Fabrizio have just been signed to pen a live-action adaptation of the video game STRANGLEHOLD.

STRANGEHOLD was a video game sequel to HARD-BOILED that was released in 2007 but Chang asserts that only some of the action from the game will be recycled.

“It will be a hardcore action film set in both Hong Kong and Chicago,” said Chang. “We will keep some of the action set pieces of the game, but the story is different. It is a total reinvention, with a much younger Tequila. In other words, it is not a sequel to HARD-BOILED.”

In a related news post on KFCCinema.com, it was reported that Stephen Fung is in talks to direct the English-language adaptation.

Fung is a Hong Kong actor who turned to directing with films ENTER THE PHOENIX (2001), HOUSE OF FURY (2005) and now JUMP (2009), a movie about a farm girl with dreams of becoming a big-time “hip-hop martial arts star” in the big city.

Sources: Twitch Film via FirstShowing.net (Thanks to Wilson for the tip.)

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Tags: gunplay, Stephen Fung, upcoming

Disappointment

If John Woo is not directing this movie then I would not want to see it in the theater. Stephen Chung is a good director...however, he would not be able to match up with John Woo...it's going to be another one dollar rental movie..

pokute

Just reading the headline caused my eyes to roll about uncontrollably.

DamnIt

No John Woo and no Chow Yun Fat? Why bother?

Doubleh

John Woo wouldn't be directing this? I just am afraid that Stephen Fung would be presurred into making a film in the style of the Bourne movies. I really don't need a new Hard Boiled film to have all these cool gun fights but you can't see what's going on because it's all in close up with shaky cam.