THE KILLER Trailer (2024) Nathalie Emmanuel

THE KILLER Trailer (2024) Nathalie Emmanuel

THE KILLER Trailer (2024) Nathalie Emmanuel, Sam Worthington, Omar Sy, Eric Cantona, John Woo, Action Movie
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"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:

The Killer Poster

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?

John Woo is following his killer instincts for the highly-anticipated English-language remake of his beloved 1989 classic film, “The Killer.”

Now with a gender-swapped twist, “The Killer” centers on Zee (Nathalie Emmanuel), a mysterious and infamous assassin who is known and feared in the Parisian underworld. With code name Queen of the Dead, Zee executes the kills her mentor and handler (Sam Worthington) assigns to her. However, after Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman (Diana Silvers) in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate her alliances and attract the attention of a savvy police investigator (Omar Sy).

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Per the official synopsis, that decision “plunges her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past.”

Woo’s original film starred Chow Yun-fat, Sally Yeh, and Danny Lee. The remake was announced in 2022 for Peacock, in collaboration with Universal Pictures. Back in 2018, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o was set to star as the assassin before “Game of Thrones” alum Emmanuel was instead cast. The remake of “The Killer” is Woo’s first film with a female lead.

Woo recently released his first American film since “Paycheck” in 2023, with “Silent Night.” Woo told IndieWire that critically panned “Paycheck” led him to exit Hollywood.

“Because I failed with ‘Paycheck,’ I didn’t get a good script offered to me for a long, long time,” Woo said. “For a Hollywood studio movie, I like to set up different cameras and shoot a lot of coverage. But working independently, you don’t have as many shooting days or as much money. It forced me to be more economical in my technique.”

He added of his latest filmmaking style, “Working for an independent company made me feel like back when I started in Hong Kong. There the director totally controlled everything, and it made it much easier. I had that again with this company. The money and the time are tight, but that’s the nature of independent film. I feel pretty pleased, because I feel free.”

“The Killer” premieres August 23 on Peacock. Check out the trailer below.

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