Peacock has dropped The Killer trailer for John Woo‘s upcoming English-language reimagining of his iconic action crime movie of the same name. In the 1989 original, Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee and Sally Yeh starred in a movie about an assassin taking on one last mission in order to get the money needed for the eye surgery of the female singer he accidentally blinded.
Check out The Killer trailer below (watch more trailers):
What happens in The Killer trailer?
The trailer features lead star Nathalie Emmanuel as an assassin who goes against her mission by saving the life of the blind girl she was supposed to kill. It also highlights some of the remake’s action-packed sequences. The is scheduled to premiere on August 23, exclusively on Peacock.
Peacock’s The Killer is once again directed by Woo from a screenplay written by Brian Helgeland. Joining Emmanuel in the remake are Omar Sy (Lupin), Sam Worthington (Avatar), Diana Silvers (Space Force), Eric Cantona (The Fragile Colossus), Tchéky Karyo (Le Femme Nikita), and Grégory Montel (Transatlantic). The film is produced by Woo, Charles Roven, Alex Gartner, and Lorin Tilkin deFelice, with Terence Chang and Robin Fisichella executive producing.
“It follows Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead,” reads the synopsis. “But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler, Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee’s alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator, and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past.”
