Rise out of your sleep, fellow slumbering canines enjoyers! Our hopes for a movie adaptation of Sq. Enix’s fantastic triad-kicking not fairly GTA Sleeping Canine should be alive, with Shang-Chi actor Simu Liu now seemingly preventing to do what Donnie Yen sadly could not, and if he can pull it off, he is additionally received a sequel on his wishlist.
I do know, the whole lot appeared very bleak after Yen revealed earlier this month that he’d primarily had to surrender on the live-action Sleeping Canine film he was set to star in, with Hollywood execs apparently not keen to provide him the time of day concerning the challenge or again it. However we could also be again in enterprise.
Responding to a random Sleeping Canine enjoyer on Twitter, Liu wrote that he is “working with the rights holders to convey Sleeping Canine to the massive display screen”. Given he is greatest identified for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and likewise taking part in a Ken in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, you’ll be able to positively see Liu having the vary required to be a fairly killer Wei Shen.
Although, it appears there’s nonetheless an extended technique to go if that is to be the case, with Liu writing in a follow-up tweet: “So few movie initiatives make it from pitch section to greenlight. Pitching execs who don’t perceive the sport has been tiring. Everybody’s overwhelming love of Sleeping Canine right here has actually given us life!”
That is seemingly not all of the actor’s hoping for both, with him having added: “First a film, then a sequel sport for everybody… that’s at all times been the dream.” Oh, hell yeah. In case you had been questioning if Liu’s critical, he is additionally confirmed his slumbering canines information by tweeting the enduring line you famously hear not less than 20 occasions each time you fireplace up the sport and wander round HK: “A person who by no means eats pork bun is rarely an entire man.”
“If we truly pull this off, my first name will likely be to Donnie [Yen],” Liu wrote in one other put up, “Second name can be Will Yun Lee, the unique voice of Wei. Third, to DoorDash to search out me the closest restaurant that serves pork bun.”
On this barrage of beautiful phrases that is sufficient to make any Solar On Yee fanatic’s coronary heart skip a beat, Liu additionally wrote that he’d not wish to painting Shen in a possible Sleeping Canine 2, if one had been to miraculously comply with the movie he is making an attempt to make occur. He advised one Twitterer that he’d be flattered to be requested, however thinks that ought to stay Yun Lee’s function.
Will any of this truly come to fruition? Who is aware of. Fairly presumably not, however not less than for now, us sleepy doggos enjoyers have hope once more.
