Woo to Helm NINJA GOLD

To direct and produce...we hear dozen of rumors, actually what is he doing ??? He was full power in HONKONG, producing several movies by years, after past to the west, impress everybody with face off, install himself in the top with MI 2, he become the most lasy director in the business, the bad puzzle movie, the bad war movies, and now nothing....if he continue like that, his name will not be a good label anymore...The west put him under morphine. Once movie a while to continue his life....

The game concept doesn't sound all that interesting to me. Admittedly, I've never played the game.
I suppose if there's a hook to this, I might be interested, but if it's simply staged action, I'll pass.
Exfan, I agree that he hasn't exactly been churning out product lately, but isn't The Battle of Red Cliff coming out soon? Also, I see he's working three producing projects at the moment.

I'm not complaining. I'm sure I'll get some heat for this, but I'm not really a John Woo fan. Everything of his I've seen is all style over substance.

You had me at ninja...

I think w/ John Woo his "style" has been oversaturated and is now part of the Hollywood blockbuster formula. When his movies w/ Chow Yun Fat came out, they were "innovative" in style in the Eighties. Frenetic, bloody and over-the-top with a different indie approach to gun battles. Now...meh...anything from HK that gets touched by Hollywood gets mass marketed, dumbed down and slapped with a hip hop soundtrack to attract the urban youth demographics. If Woo were to go indie and not be restricted by the schmucks in Hollywood I think he'd reinvent the million-bullets gun battles. Now I just glance at news about him, scan to see anything about a Chow Yun Fat reunion then move on.

@sharpe95th
What's wrong with a hip-hop soundtrack? Why is it ok to saddle every other movie and tv show with emo-soft rock but when there is a hip-hop soumdtrack it's a negative?
Hip-hop can convey a host of emotions. People don't see that because all you ever hear is the hip-hop stereotypes.

I'd like to see a movie about the russo-japanese war centered around a group of Ninjas. Now that would be cool.

Yeah, you know, I am really getting tired of the negativity being thrown at hip-hop soundtracks and that type of music in movies. Its okay to have emo, hard rock, or freaking annoying Yanni type crap in a movie, but as soon as you hear a little Jay-z or something like that, it becomes this negative thing. Its like why is Rock, for the mature but HipHop is simply recognized to "attract the urban youth demographic"? Oh yeah, and not for nothing but it isn`t the urban youth that are buying up millions of units a month of Jay-z, Nas, or Three Six Mafia albums. Its the suburban teens that mostly buy the music. Hip Hop is no longer just for us po` inner city folk. If you open up your eyes, hiphop has an influence in almost everything from advertising, art, fashion, to t.v. and yes, movies.

Now are there negative things about HipHop? Hell yeah, but every musical genre has them. Its only because Hip Hop has been more commercialized that people see them and take note.

Hip hop kills a movie soundtrack for me personally. If the studio can make money off dumbass yo yo know what I'm sayin idiots, more power to them. I guess the age of great soundtracks is over anyway.

I don't really think that that comment was a slam on hip-hop, senores sensitivos... I think it was a generalization that a lot of these types of films having hip-hop soundtracks, like ROMEO MUST DIE, CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE, UNLEASHED... ok, just about everything Jet Li does that takes place in the present. I think the thing that is more annoying is when they take hip-hop stars and try and build up a movie career around them.