movieline.com - 10/8/2009
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Just because he hasn't made a film in America since 2003, "It doesn't mean I have given up on Hollywood," John Woo told me this morning in a discussion about his latest film Red Cliff . That film, like his next project Jianyu Jianghu (with Michelle Yeoh) are both Chinese-language, but Woo ...
apple.com - 10/2/2009
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Legendary action cinema master John Woo and international
superstar Tony Leung reunite for the first time since...
the 1992 classic HARD BOILED with this epic historical drama set based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han ...
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Red Cliff - Trailer
movieline.com - 10/14/2009
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After building a trailblazing career as an action
director in Asia, John Woo left for Hollywood over...
fifteen years ago to make megabudget films like Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II . Still, the director always intended to return to his home ...
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John Woo: 'After Paycheck, I Couldn't Get Better Scripts'
slashfilm.com - 10/8/2009
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John Woo hasn’t made an English-language film since
2003’s Paycheck . Arguably he’s made only one good...
(or only one truly entertaining) film in America, Face/Off , though the Nic Cage war film Windtalkers does have defenders. ...
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John Woo Considering Two English-Language Projects; ...
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What Should John Woo Direct Next: Marco Polo or Le Samourai?
FirstShowing.net —
... that he's got a few projects on his slate to choose from. Much like Tarantino, John Woo has a few projects to choose from as well. Movieline recently interviewed the director (for Red Cliff's US release) and discovered that he's got another ancient epic about Marco Polo in the works as well as a remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai. So which one should he direct next? ...
'Marco?' 'Polo!' 'Marco?' 'Polo!': John Woo Set To Return To English Language Filmmaking
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... Movieline talked to the dove-loving director, who revealed that he wants to remake Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai," which Woo paid heavy tribute to with his classic "The Killer." Melville seems to be back in vogue at the moment — we reported ...
John Woo Considering Two English-Language Projects; Wants to Remake Le Samouraï
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... Movieline reports on the two projects. The first seems wholly superfluous, which means it’ll probably the one the gets made. That’s a straight-up remake of Jean-Pierre Melville’s amazing pseudo-gangster movie Le Samouraï. The film, which combines ’40s gangster imagery, samurai-influenced storytelling and ’60s Parisian style, has been a massive influence on Woo over the years. The Killer, as Movieline notes, is already so heavily influenced by Melville’s film that it could almost be considered ...
John Woo Wants to Remake 'Le Samourai'?
RopeofSilicon.com —
... Movieline has posted a few snippets from their interview with Red Cliff director John Woo, whose new film is the first feature length film he has released since 2003's abysmal Paycheck. It's his return to Chinese language films, but as he tells Movieline's Kyle Buchanan, "It doesn't mean I have given up on Hollywood."
Nope, instead he has a pair of films he would like to make, the first being an English-language remake of John-Pierre Melville's outstanding 1967 feature Le Samourai, a film Buchanan says Woo already touched upon so ...
John Woo considers Le Samouraï and Marco Polo
Filmstalker —
... people. His father met Kublai Khan during his Asian travels, and Khan asked him to become their ambassador and communicate with the Pope. Marco Polo then travelled extensively through Asia on behalf of Khan and on their return documented it for Western readers. Now if that's not an epic tale to rival the epic nature of Red Cliff I don't know what is, and it sounds far from a single film too. John Woo was talking about his next two potential projects to Movieline through /Film , and talked a little about why he was wanting to remake a film ...
John Woo Update: A Remake of ‘Le Samourai?’
Screen Rant —
... “favorite stories.” Who knew.
So which of these films will be first up on Woo’s docket? Critics and audiences tend to stray when Woo doesn’t stay true to his action roots (usually for good reason). Action is what Woo does best. So I’m hoping he pushes ahead with Le Samourai (Woo-style gun play on the streets of Paris?); no matter if the film ends up in French, English, or Chinese, I will be there.
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