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Hard Boiled Sequel Might Actually Be a Prequel After All?

by Alex Billington
March 15, 2009
Source: Twitch

A week ago we brought you the news that a sequel to Hard Boiled / adaptation of the video game Stranglehold was in development at John Woo's Lion Rock Entertainment. There weren't many details, but it was exciting news nonetheless. The guys at Twitch decided to dig up some more details and went to Woo's producing partner Terence Chang. He confirms that they are developing another Hard Boiled movie, but that "it is a total reinvention, with a much younger Tequila. In other words, it is not a sequel to Hard Boiled." So does that mean it might be a prequel? Chang didn't say, but it sounds like that's the case.

Chang starts off saying: "There was once a sequel to Hard Boiled, from an idea that I had. I developed it for Chow Yun-fat and had commissioned a pretty good script written by John Jarrell. The project is now inactive." So let's jump to today, where the Stranglehold video game, which is a sequel, has been out on shelves since late 2007. Chang continues: "We are now developing a movie of Stranglehold, and just signed the writers Jeremy Passmore and Andre Fabrizio. It will be a hardcore action film set in both Hong Kong and Chicago. We will keep some of the action set pieces of the game, but the story is different."

We're not exactly sure what this means and it looks like we'll have to wait to hear more or see how far into production it gets before we have more answers. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it just means we won't get a direct sequel like originally reported. And I'm sure they won't cast either Chow Yun-Fat or Tony Leung again, which is a bit of a shame, but oh well. I'm cautiously optimistic about this being any good anyway.

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zetsu

harded boiled is a asian classic,very cool their thinking of doing a sequel or a prequel either way could be cool.
Shige

Who gives a shite if its a preques sequel or a reboot. They are butchering the story, the classic action to milk cash. Nothing else, period.
Colca

Why would you say they're butchering the story without having read the script or any material related to the actual story? That's kinda jumping the gun a little.
Vguy.72

dang! I thought this was the adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel. Oh well, still looks cool...
LINKFX

This is a pure move to milk some more cash now that Hard Boiled has caught on more with the American audience recently because of Stranglehold. I'm sure that Chow Yun-Fat won't be involved, so I'm really really not interested in this.