Ooh! I hope he does it, and does it well! | |
movie to game to movie? i don't think that qualifies for videogame movie. | |
Look! We've come full circle, it lapses back onto itself! OMFG TOME PARADIX! | |
HELL YEAH FINALLY.....Hard Boiled and Full Contact are the only movies I have "bought" in the last 6 years, they are that good. AND WE FINALLY GET A SEQUEL YAAAAAAAY. Good luck Yun-Fat Chow *that is actually his "name" due to poor translations it cam out chow-yun fat, although he is a cool enough dude to respond to either :)* Hurry Call the doctor on you plot handy galactic cell phone if there is a Paradox he is the man to fix it *the David Tennant doctor* | |
sounds cool I wouldn't mind seeing it | |
id rather he re-made hard boiled with better technology. I liked hardboiled, but in retrospect, the technology brings down the awesomeness of it. | |
I thought the game itself was meant to be the sequel he never filmed. Might have to give it another play sometime soon. | |
The Movie: The Game: The Movie. By John Woo. How weird can you get? Still, I hope it comes out well. There hasn't been a good game-to-movie transition in the history of the world, but I'm hoping that since this one has another movie mixed in with it, it will have the necessary basis to not suck. | |
God no, the last thing it needs is more "technology." That's how abortions like GI Joe get made. | |
Unless Chow Yun-Fat is in it, I don't care. He made that movie. | |
Its some kind of strange hybrid for sure... Well, I remember playing the game, it was fun, if not a little contrived. | |
I think this was the move that Woo should have done in the first place. | |
I dont mean cg technology, ust a less grainy camera and some less jerky slow motion. Not cgi technology. Higher budget, better blood, less dated feel. The movie feels very dated now. | |
I never played Stranglehold, but I really liked the concept art for it from Tae-young Choi. If the film's got good sets like those, I'll check it out. | |
Too bad it will probably be made in the US; Woo has not produced anything near as good as Hard Boiled during his years in America. Either he's lost his magic touch, or Hollywod-moviemaking doesn't allow for the kind of workethic that Woo clearly needs. | |
i loved stranglehold and i was a big fan of the original hard boiled, i fully support this improbable motion | |
Stranglehold was pretty good...until later in the game where the action was just so repetitive. I had to put the game down for a month or so before I picked it back up and finally finished it. So...yeah, that one line about it being just blowing stuff up real good is pretty much spot on. | |
HOORAY!!!! I love John Woo. | |
OH NO!!! If that movie comes out it will disrupt the space time contimium!!!! | |
The game Stranglehold had story and ambition that belonged in a movie. It could've used the talents of Tony Leung and Chow Yun Fat more. | |
Should be pretty good, especially if he can get Chow Yun Fat on board. I look foreward to it with great interest. | |
Well, if the movie is a logical follow-up to the game, I don't see why not. I absolutely fell in love with the game. | |
Oh my God, this is the Street Fighter The Movie The Game all over again, only in reverse. Stranglehold The Game The Movie As much as I hate to say it, Woo lost it when he Americanized, and the game was okay, at times it felt like a re-skinned Enter the Matrix. There was certainly a story in there, hidden beneath the repetitive "kill this dude now kill this dude's twin brother x1000000000" so it could be good, IF Woo says "fuck you Hollywood" and shoots it old school for a straight R rating. That's the biggest problem with this. You know damn well this is going to be a PG-13 movie. If they can do it to Die Hard, they can do it to the guy who's last decent movie was a decade ago. | |
I still liked Woo's hollywood movies. Hard Target, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Windtalkers, even Mission Impossible 2 are all awesome for the action scenes alone. The old HK ones are much more classic though, my fav is Bullet to the Head. I really didn't care for Stranglehold. I wanted Max Payne with more crazy slowmo moves, instead I got just crazy slowmo moves. Suffice to say I never finished it. | |
And here I was assuming that it was talking about Ted Nugent. | |
*facedesk* | |
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John Woo Making a Stranglehold Movie
Director John Woo says he plans to make a movie out of Stranglehold, the 2007 videogame that was itself a follow-up to a 1992 movie.
In 1992, John Woo directed Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung, Philip Kwok and a whole bunch of other completely insane dudes in Hard Boiled, otherwise known as the best damn action movie ever made. It's hard to describe, so just watch this promo trailer and bear in mind that it's showing mostly the slower, less violent parts. Anyway, Woo went on to do other things and despite Hard Boiled being frikkin' awesome, there was never so much as a peep about a sequel.
Fast forward to 2007 and suddenly a sequel, sort of, made an appearance: Woo teamed with Midway to create the third-person shooter Stranglehold, with Chow Yun-Fat reprising his role as the "hard-boiled" Inspector "Tequila" Yuen. The game performed reasonably well, with Metacritic scores of 77 across all platforms, but it was hardly a major hit and not of much interest to anyone who just wanted to watch a couple hours of stuff getting blowed up real good.
Now, two years later, Woo has revealed that Stranglehold the videogame is going to be remade into Stranglehold the film. "We are going to make that into a movie," he said in an interview with Cinematical. If the IMDB is to be believed, the movie is currently slated for a 2012 release.
Woo said that while he'd like to take another crack at making videogames, his schedule doesn't allow it. "I don't have that much time, even though I want to make one again," he continued. "But for the moment, I also am producing two movies. One is shooting in Taiwan. One is shooting in Shanghai. So I am quite busy these days."
I've never played Stranglehold but I have a well-used VHS copy of Hard Boiled (sent to me, somewhat ironically, by a friend from Australia) as well as an older "special edition" release on DVD. So a Stranglehold movie? That's something I'd stand in line for.
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