Dang it. Sleeping Canine – an excellent recreation about an undercover cop infitrating Hong Kong’s triads by mendacity and backing that mendacity up by kicking half the inhabitants of the particular administrative area proper within the face – is not set to be getting a movie adaptation starring Donnie Yen.
I do know, fellow slumbering canines enjoyer, I am unhappy too. We’ll recover from it, although, most likely be re-installing the Definitive Version and slapping the t*ts off of some hoodlums hiding away in an alleyway in Central – probably subsequent to a kind of good blue lockboxes.
This now dead-in-the-water live-action movie – first introduced again in 2017 – would have seen Yen, recognized for his roles in Rogue One, John Wick: Chapter 4, and the Ip Man franchise, tackle enjoying protagonist Wei Shen. The actor’s now confirmed to Polygon that this seemingly is not on the playing cards anymore.
“I spent plenty of time and did plenty of work with these producers, and I even invested a few of my very own cash into acquiring the drafts and a few of the rights,” he stated. “I waited for years. Years. And I actually wish to do it. I’ve all these visions in my head, and sadly… I don’t know, you understand how Hollywood goes, proper? I spent many, a few years on it. It was an unlucky factor.”
Yen concluded by including: “Nicely, on to higher issues.”
Rattling. Take into consideration how good it might have been. Particularly if Yen had introduced the identical swagger he had as Caine in that John Wick film – a personality that is already set to get his personal spin-off movie – to the position.
That is simply the destiny of us sleepy doggos followers, it could appear. No sequels, no film, simply countless journeys to kung fu the crap out of a sure crime boss recognized for his massive grin.
