This sleeping dog movie is under development. We heard that Xiangqi star Simu Li will play wei shen
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This week, Marvel Cinematic Universe Star Simu Liu excited sleeping dog fans when speaking on Twitter He is working with rights holders to bring the favorite video games to the big screenEssence
It turns out that things must be far more than that. Source close to the project tells IGN, sleeping dog movies yes In development, we are hearing Simu Liu, he is in Legend of Xiangqi and Ten RingsIt is being produced and starting to play Wei Yin's protagonist.
IGN requires Square Enix to comment.
Sleeping dog In 2012, it was first released on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, and told the story of detective Wei Shen as one of Hong Kong's infamous Trinity Criminal Group. Although it failed to reach the lofty sales expectations of the publisher Square Enix, it was welcomed by fans, and the sequel hopes to follow it since then.
Primitive adaptation was announced in 2017 As Donnie Yen starred in a star, but This movie disappeared a year later Moreover, just a few weeks ago, Ri Yang himself confirmed that it had been scrapped.
Yen tells PolygonalEssence
“I have waited for many years. Many years. I really want to do this. I have all these visions in my mind. Unfortunately … I don’t know, you know what is going on in Hollywood, right? I spent many years This is a unfortunate thing.
Therefore, when Liu Fa tweeted that he was trying to make the “Sleep Dog” movie a realistic, there was a certain degree of confusion between fans. Liu Men follows up Another statement This increased the fuel of the fire and even revealed his intention, which helped bring the sleeping dog video game sequel to life.
He said: “Therefore, the film project is from the pitch stage to the green light.” “The executives who do not understand the game have been tiring. Everyone's love for sleeping dogs here has indeed given us life!
“First of all, a movie, and then everyone's sequel game … that has always been a dream.”
IGN can reveal the story kitchen is leading the sleeping dog live action film project, while Square Enix is a right holder. Story Kitchen has a form in the adaptation of video games. From Sonic The Hedgehog Films to Netflix's animated tombstone Raider series, all work has been engaged in all jobs. At present, it is working on the upcoming angry adaptation of the street, and it takes two adaptations of Amazon.
last year, Story Kitchen announced the active film adaptation of Square EnixSign signed with the blue beetle director 甲ngelmanuelsoto. IGN understands that there is a writer and main movie producer in the “Sleep Dog Project” project, but there is no release date or when to start production.
The film marks the major rejuvenation of “Sleep Dog”. The movie's video game sequel was canceled before it entered the production at the end of 2013. Its original developer and Front Games closed three years later. Now, ten years later, the sleeping dog can eventually call to wake up.
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