Action cinema is entering a new era, folks — the Quanaissance is upon us! Having made an extraordinary, Oscar-winning return to our screens after over three decades away in The Daniels' 2022 Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All At Once, Ke Huy Quan has spent the last couple of years contributing high profile supporting turns to the likes of Loki S2 and Kung Fu Panda 4. But in veteran stunt coordinator Jonathan Eusebio's feature directorial debut Love Hurts, the latest action joint from John Wick and Nobody producers 87North, Quan is set to get his leading man moment at last playing a mild-mannered realtor with a violent past. Check out the high-octane trailer below:
Set to the dulcet tones of Céline Dion's 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now', this trailer sees Quan exhibiting the same magic combo of unassuming charm and ass kicking cool as he brought to EEAAO — only instead of playing a put-upon husband revivified by the multiverse, here he's Marvin Gable, a real estate agent who turns out to be as handy closing a windpipe as a condo sale. But whilst Quan's last big-screen appearance was very much a supporting role in Michelle Yeoh's movie, it's very clear that in Love Hurts, tasked with playing up both sides of his screen persona as Marvin's crime lord brother (Daniel Wu) and old flame (Ariana DeBose) draw him back into a world of death, danger, and double-crossing, the former Goonies child star is right at home playing an all-out action hero with a lot of heart (and a truly magnificent moustache!)
Here's the official synopsis for the movie, whose cast list also boasts Sean Astin, Rhys Darby, and Marshawn Lynch: "Quan stars as Marvin Gable, a realtor working the Milwaukee suburbs, where ‘For Sale’ signs bloom. Gable receives a crimson envelope from Rose (DeBose), a former partner-in-crime that he had left for dead. She’s not happy. Now, Marvin is thrust back into a world of ruthless hitmen, filled with double-crosses and open houses turned into deadly warzones. With his brother Knuckles (Wu), a volatile crime lord, hunting him, Marvin must confront the choices that haunt him and the history he never truly buried."
"You want the old me?" asks Quan's Marvin — drenched in neon light, staring into a clenched fist, looking all sorts of badass — at the trailer's breathless climax, "You got him!" And after all those years away, all we can say is it's about damn time! Roll on 7 February, 2025.