“I’m always good at what I do.” Peacock has revealed the first trailer for an action movie called The Killer, an official remake of the John Woo movie from the 1980s. Not related at all to David Fincher’s The Killer (also about a hitman) from last year. John Woo is remaking his own movie, after directing last year’s Silent Night, but this one will not be getting released on the big screen in theaters. Strangely this is being dumped directly-to-streaming starting in August on Peacock. Universal Pictures presents A Better Tomorrow Films/Atlas Entertainment Production, in association with eOne.
An assassin tries to make amends in an effort to restore the sight of a beautiful young singer. The original Woo film is also about a disillusioned assassin who takes on one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded. The remake cast features Nathalie Emmanuel as Zee, Omar Sy, Sam Worthington, Diana Silvers, Eric Cantona, Saϊd Taghmaoui, Tchéky Karyo, Grégory Montel, along with Angeles Woo and Aurélia Agel. Let’s hope this lives up to the hype and all the action is entertaining – otherwise, why even remake it?
Here’s the first official trailer (+ poster) for John Woo’s 2024 The Killer, from Peacock’s YouTube:
From one of the producers of Oppenheimer, the kinetic action thriller film stars Emmy nominee Nathalie Emmanuel as Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead. But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler (Sam Worthington), Zee refuses to 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁 a blinded young woman (Diana Silvers) in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee’s alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator (Omar Sy), and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past. The Killer is once again directed by the legendary action Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo, director of many action films including A Better Tomorrow, Just Heroes, The Killer, Bullet in the Head, Hard Boiled, Hard Target, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Mission: Impossible 2, Windtalkers, Paycheck, Red Cliff, Reign of Assassins, The Crossing, Manhunt, and Silent Night previously. The screenplay is co-written by Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken, and Brian Helgeland; based on John Woo’s original 1989 movie of the same name. Produced by Charles Roven, Alex Gartner, Lori Tilkin deFelice, and John Woo. Universal Pictures will debut Woo’s The Killer streaming on Peacock directly starting on August 23rd, 2024 this summer. Anyone want to watch?
