Almost two decades since they last worked together on King of New York, Abel Ferrara will be re-teaming with Wesley Snipes in Game of Death – which is not a remake of the Bruce Lee film. The state of Michigan will offer a tax benefit for the action thriller that in a perfect world would put Snipes back on the map.
Screen Daily reports that Sony already holds the US rights to the story of a hospitalised politician’s bodyguard who discovers the truth behind his mission as he tries to stop five of the world’s top assassins from killing his boss. Billy Dietrich (exec producer on Giallo) and Rafael Primorac are producing and Voltage Pictures’ Nicolas Chartier and Nadine de Barros serve as executive producers alongside Roger Grad.
For those not keeping score, Ferrara recently saw the long delayed release of Chelsea on the Rocks, and has been busy with the shot in Napoli film called Napoli, Napoli, Napoli and Mulberry St. – a doc film about a street that he filmmaker used in many of his crime films. Here’s hoping that Game of Death doesn’t receive a direct to dvd death.
