Woo making a move to SPY HUNTER?

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Monday, April 19, 2004
Source: Latino Review

A scoop appearing at Latino Rveiew suggests that one of the possible candidates to direct Universal's SPY HUNTER action movie is John Woo. The website's reporter was on the set of The Rock's new movie, BE COOL, where the big guy mentioned that he has just found out Woo was up for the job.

While his last film wasn't a box office smash (PAYCHECK), John Woo has earned the reputation of a proven action film director. Rising from the Hong Kong film industry with a series of gritty police and crime action/dramas featuring intense gunplay (HARD BOILED, THE KILLER), Woo made his move in the mid-90s and switched gears to start directing American films. He brought us BROKEN ARROW, FACE/OFF and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 which cemented his standing as one of the best filmmakers in the action genre. In recent years his films have stumbled at the box office (such as WINDTALKERS or the aforementioned PAYCHECK) but he still remains a force that demands to be taken notice of. Just last week Woo attached his name to a proposed live-action film adaptation of Nintendo's METROID video game.

The SPY HUNTER is currently scheduled for a summer 2005 release date.


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