What is John Woo’s The Killer (2024) all about? Release date, plot, cast, and more explored

John Woo is coming up with a remake of his 1989 classic film, The Killer. The action thriller, with a release date just around the corner, is loosely based on the original and centers around a retired hitman who decides to take on one last job to right a wrong. It follows a feared Parisian assassin, Zee, who triggers a deadly conflict that puts everybody in her circle in danger.

The movie is coming from the legendary action director John Woo, who returned to Hollywood with Silent Night and the upcoming reimagination of his celebrated action movie, which will make its debut exclusively on Peacock soon.

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All about John Woo’s The Killer (2024): Release date and where to watch?

The Killer is scheduled to make its premiere on August 23, 2024, on Peacock. The movie can be watched on the Pacock streaming platform with a subscription.

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What is the movie all about? Plot and trailer explored

The Killer follows the story of Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known and feared in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead. But during one of her assignments from her shadowy mentor and handler, Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman in a Paris nightclub.

Her decision throws apart Zee's life and attracts the attention of a police investigator, and she's plunged into a sinister world of criminal conspiracy that makes her come face to face with her past.

The Killer has a screenplay written by Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland and the screenwriting team of Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken.

It's produced by Academy Award winner Charles Roven, Alex Gartne, and John Woo himself. Joining as executive producers are Terence Chang, Mark Gordon, Matt Jackson and Robin Mulcahy Fisichella.

Talking about his classic, Woo said:

“Zee is a lonely and oppressed assassin, and Sey is an honest but tough cop. They share a sense of decency and have the same values in terms of justice.

"Fate has brought them together, but they have a very different style and approach to things. The two develop a very memorable friendship and sense of appreciation for each other after the events that open the film.”

A remake of The Killer has been in the talks for a long time, and Woo himself announced he would direct the remake in 2017.

The Killer is a classic action thriller that kickstarted the whole gun-fu subgenre in both Hong Kong in the 1980s and then Hollywood in the 1990s. This is a fantasy subgenre set in a world of slick professional killers for hire living in the shadows.

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The cast list of The Killer (2024)

Nathalie Emmanuel stars as Zee, a feared and lethal assassin in the Parisian criminal underworld. Emmanuel is a British actor who began her acting career with theater.

In 2006, she began her on-screen career by starring in the soap opera Hollyoaks, after which she appeared in popular titles like Game of Thrones (2013–2019), Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) and its sequel Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) and the Fast & Furious films Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), F9 (2021) and Fast X (2023).

She's joined by Omar Sy as Sey, who's a veteran of the French police force who becomes involved in Zee's case. Sy is a French actor who's best known for his role in the 2011 comedy-drama film Intouchables.

He has also appeared in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Jurassic World (2015), Two Is a Family (2016), Chocolat (2016), Inferno (2016), Jurassic World Dominion and The Takedown (2022).

Here's the rest of the cast members of the upcoming remake of the John Woo action thriller:

• Sam Worthington as Finn
• Diana Silvers as Jenn
• Saïd Taghmaoui as Prince Majeb Bin Faheem
• Hugo Diego Garcia
• Aurélia Agel as Juliet
• Grégory Montel as Jax

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Catch The Killer coming tomorrow on Peacock.