Before taking on Studio Canal’s remake of Jean-Pierre Melville’s crime classic The Red Circle (the original is available via Criterion – that’s where I caught it for the first time), Hong Kong’s most prolific director will keep with the French theme setting crooner Johnny Hallyday and French thesp Sylvie Testud against a common cast of criminals in a Hong Kong-set revenge flick aptly titled Vengeance.
Scripted by Wai Ka-fai, Hallyday would play the lead role of a French assassin turned chef who comes to Hong Kong to avenge a murder. The pic also stars Johnnie To alumni players like Anthony Wong, Simon Yam and Lam Suet. A Cannes premiere would not be out of the question (Triangle had a Cannes preem) for the project which has already started production and is produced by ARP production along with Media Asia and Milkyway Image.
To had been working on another project called Death of a Hostage – but the project never had a proper footing while the Melville remake is still in development.
