Genre: Action.
Studio:
Sony Pictures.
Production Company:
Unknown.
Project Phase: Development Hell.
Who's In It:
No one confirmed as yet, but Denzel Washington and Richard Gere might be under consideration.
Who's Making It: John Woo (Director, Screenwriter); John Woo, Terrence Chang (Executive
Producers); Charles Roven, Jeffrey Lurie (Producers); a remake of the 1989 film
Die xue shuang xiong (The Killer).
Premise: A hitman and the cop chasing him team up once they realize that the gangsters out to kill them both are their mutual enemy.
Release Date: Unknown.
Comments: The original was directed by John Woo and is considered by many Woo fans to be his ultimate Hong Kong action picture. The film's marketers weren't kidding around when they used the tag line "Ten thousand bullets"
Rumors: April, 1998... When's Woo going to find the time to direct this? He's supposed to be helming the second Mission: Impossible and Kings Ransom before this remake!
Scoop Feedback:
[Page draft submitted by mercenary/hitman 'Deadpool' and police officer 'Widgett'.]
April 10, 1998... John Travolta is reportedly watching the development of this project with great interest, perhaps to take his third outing under Woo's directorship? [Scoop provided by 'Deadpool'.]
April 11, 1998... Here's a damn interesting scoop from one of CA anonymous readers. "I have seen Sony Pictures Entertainment projects-in-development synopses that has this one in it, guess the name of the actors listed there? --- Richard Gere and Denzel Washington.
"A number of Hollywood stars have taken a liking to this film and Nic Cage, who loved the Chow Yun-Fat role so much in the original, asked the make-up artist for a mustache in the opening scenes of Face/Off as his homage to that character. Go figure! This story was widely published in Asian media when John Woo made his tour last year for Face/Off."
{Submitted anonymously.]
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