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17 May 2012 1:30 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »

For most of the 2000's it seemed like director John Woo had lost his mojo. Sure, he still knew how to throw up some action on screen, but that was about the only thing you could muster up to like about films like Mission Impossible II, Paycheck and Windtalkers. But in 2008 Woo proved that he's still got it with his critically acclaimed period set film Red Cliff. Aside from a Red Cliff sequel the director has stayed pretty low key. Now it is being reported that John Woo is set to helm Day of the Beast, an English language remake of Seijun Suzuki's 1963 classic Youth of the Beast, an action-packed saga of loyalty, revenge and redemption. Scripted by Rob Frisbee, Terence Chang, and Naoki Sato, the Tokyo set Day of the Beast follows a western outsider with a grim past as he becomes embroiled in a global turf war »

- abefroman

16 May 2012 11:49 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

It’s been a while since John Woo has directed an English-language film—nine years to be exact.  Now the director has committed to directing an English-language remake of Seijun Suzuki’s 1963 film Youth of the Beast.  The film, titled Day of the Beast, centers on the dealings of Yakuza, the Japanese mafia.  Woo will direct and produce the pic from a script by Rob Frisbee.  The story takes place in Tokyo and “follows a western outsider with a grim past as he becomes embroiled in a global turf war between a vicious new breed of Yakuza and old school Cold War Russian mobsters.” I’m not familiar with the original, but it should be interesting to see a new English-language pic from Woo.  The director was hailed for his action style in the 90s in films like Hard Boiled and Face/Off, but suffered box office failures with Windtalkers and his 2003 effort Paycheck, »

- Adam Chitwood

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