Six years in the making since its announcement, Don Lee’s return to his role The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil finally gets a director in James Wan for the reimagining. Per Borys Kit at The Hollywood Reporter, the Furious Seven and Aquaman helmer will direct the movie for Paramount Pictures from a script by Shay Hatten.
In Lee Won-tae’s The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, the actor plays a heavy-hitting crime boss forced to team up with a dogged detective (Kim Mu-yeol) following a close call with a serial killer. The movie screened at Cannes and at Fantasia Fest prior to releasing in the states from Well Go USA.
Wan’s treatment hails from Blumhouse-Atomic Monster whose Wan will produce next to Michael Clear, as well as Lee via Big Punch Global, Sylvester Stallone and D. Matt Geller via Balboa Productions, Chris Lee of B&C Group, and Jang Won-seok, CEO of BA Entertainment.
Actor Lee’s career has since taken shape in front of global audiences since establishing firmly in the Korean market, appearing in films like The Unjust, Train To Busan, Marvel’s The Eternals, and a currently ongoing slate of cop thrillers that began with 2017’s The Outlaws to name a few. He will next appear in Lee Sang-yong’s Pig Village and upcoming Extraction spin-off, Tygo.
Read my review of the original The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil by clicking here, and read more of Kit’s exclusive at THR.