John Woo is back with a radical reimagining of his own 1989 Hong Kong action classic, The Killer, for which Peacock has just revealed their first trailer ahead of the film’s August 23rd release date.

Woo’s original film, which he both wrote and directed, followed a disillusioned assassin (Chow Yun-fat) as he accepts one last hit in hopes of using the money to restore vision to the singer (Sally Yeh) he accidentally blinded. It went on to become a cult favourite and influential work in the action-thriller canon. Details of the Peacock reimagining are still unknown.

The screenplay for this reimagining comes from 10 Cloverfield Lane duo Matthew Stuecken and Josh Campbell, as well as Eran Creevy and Brian Helgeland. 

In 2024’s The Killer, Game of Thrones star Nathalie Emmanuel stars as Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known and feared in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead. But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler (Sam Worthington, the Avatar films), Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman (Diana Silvers, Ma) in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee’s alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator (Omar Sy), and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past.

With the motorbike/car chase scenes through Paris, the merciless hand-to-hand choreography and even a Church set, we can’t help but be reminded of John Wick 4 – which is very much a compliment.

Watch the trailer for The Killer below: