EXCLUSIVE: John Woo and Universal Pictures are teaming on a new version of his 1989 Hong King crime classic The Killer. It is intended as a star vehicle for Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o. She is negotiating to play the assassin, a role originated by Chow Yun-fat. The studio has the film on a fast track, with Woo…

EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal has hired Alex Holmes to adapt The Killer for Pierre Morel to direct. This comes after Studiocanal acquired rights to Tom Wood's critically acclaimed Victor The Assassin book franchise, with Morel attached along with The Picture Company to produce with Sentient Entertainment. Studiocanal and…

Studiocanal has acquired rights to Tom Wood’s critically acclaimed Victor The Assassin book franchise for director Pierre Morel to helm and The Picture Company to produce with Sentient Entertainment. The tie-up comes after Studiocanal and Morel collaborated on The Gunman, the action thriller starring Sean Penn, Javier…

(Cannes) May 18, 2012 –– Bruno Wu's Seven Stars Film Studios (SSFS) has agreed to finance John Woo and Terence Chang's Lion Rock Productions 'THE KILLER', the English language retelling of John Woo's iconic 1989 action film. John H. Lee (A MOMENT TO REMEMBER, 71: INTO THE FIRE) will direct the script by Josh Campbell…