The Sleeping Dogs movie adaptation, which was confirmed to be cancelled earlier this month, now has a likelihood of coming again courtesy of Marvel star Simu Liu.
As reported by Newsweek, Liu replied to a fan calling for an adaptation of the 2012 sport on X/Twitter to say he’s attempting to get the movie off the bottom. “Working with the rights holders to deliver Sleeping Dogs to the massive display screen,” he mentioned.
The difference was introduced in 2017 with Donnie Yen set to star, however the movie disappeared a 12 months later and, simply a few weeks in the past, Yen himself confirmed it had been scrapped.
“I spent a lot of time and did a lot of labor with these producers, and I even invested a few of my very own cash into acquiring the drafts and a few of the rights,” Yen mentioned. “I waited for years. years. And I actually needed to do it. And sadly… I do not know. You understand how Hollywood goes, proper?”
All hope for a continuation of the Hong Kong-set motion franchise was due to this fact misplaced, till Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Liu replied to a random social media submit. Whether or not or not he’ll achieve the rights to the movie, or get it working in any other case, stay to be seen.
Sleeping Dogs was launched on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC and tells the story of detective Wei Shen as he infiltrates considered one of Hong Kong’s infamous Triad crime syndicates. It was very properly acquired, incomes an 8/10 in IGN’s overview, however regardless of this acquired no comply with ups have been launched.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.