Kim Jee-woon's 2005 film A Bittersweet Life was a well-regarded Korean action thriller that is now headed for an American redo. Michael B. Jordan is on to star and Jennifer Yuh Nelson will direct the new movie.
Jordan will take over the lead role of a criminal underworld enforcer who has his boss's absolute trust in exchange for unquestioning loyalty. That's challenged when he's ordered to kill one of his employer's girlfriends, a woman that our hero has grown close to. Cue bullets flying, punches landing and a whole heap of trouble.
Shawn Levy's 21 Laps company is producing the movie and Fox is on board to finance and distribute. Jordan has Marvel's Black Panther due on 16 February next year, and will also be seen in HBO's new take on Fahrenheit 451. Nelson, a veteran of DreamWorks Animation, is at work on her live-action directorial debut, an adaptation of YA novel The Darkest Minds.
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