The Killer 2024

The Killer is a 2024 American action thriller film directed by John Woo, a remake of his 1989 Hong Kong film. The film stars Nathalie Emmanuel, Omar Sy, Sam Worthington, Diana Silvers, Eric Cantona, Tchéky Karyo and Saïd Taghmaoui. It follows a young contract killer, who refuses to murder a blind woman on the orders of her handler, and then gets confronted by their old colleagues and a determined detective. An adaptation of The Killer was in development since the 1990s with various screenwriters and directors being involved but did not materialise. Afterwards John H. Lee was announced to direct the adaptation in 2007 with Woo serving as the producer, but not materialize until 2015, when Woo took over the directing duties from Lee owing to the latter's commitments on other projects. Universal Pictures officially announced the project in 2017 with contributions from Brian Helgeland, Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken providing the screenplay. The film underwent several casting and screenplay changes, with the main character's role being gender-swapped and Lupita Nyong'o was originally announced to play the lead before being replaced by Emmanuel.