John Woo directed the upcoming film Silent Night with producer Basil Iwanyk, who also produces the John Wick films. John Wick is heavily influenced by Woo's brand of artistic gunplay, but the humble Woo praised the series for picking up his baton.
Woo pioneered "bullet ballet" gun battles in Hong Kong films like The Killer, Hard Boiled and Bullet in the Head. He brought his style to Hollywood films like Hard Target, Broken Arrow and Mission: Impossible II.
Silent Night stars Joel Kinnaman as a grieving father plotting revenge against the gang members who killed his son. It is Woo's first Hollywood film since 2003's Paycheck.
Another Woo film may also get a sequel. Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett are developing Face/Off 2 for Wingard to direct.
In 1997's Face/Off, John Travolta plays an FBI agent who must switch faces with a terrorist (Nicolas Cage). Wingard and Barrett's idea would force them to face off again, according to Empire Magazine.Woo said he had a different idea for a sequel with all new characters.
"The only thing I thought of was that story, change it to two women," Woo said. "Women doing some operation to switch their face could be interesting. The studio seems to be not interested about the idea."
