Another John Woo headline announcing a project that we’ll only believe in it when we see it, Variety reports that John Woo will helm and produce Ninja Gold along with Woo's Lion Rock Prods. partner Terence Chang.
Based on the idea of vidgame creator Warren Spector, this will feature a mix between action and mythology. Fox’s youth label Fox Atomic will add the film to their slate.
Spector, who will exec produce, is a 20-year vet of the game industry who's developed titles like “Deux Ex: Invisible War,” “Thief: Deadly Shadows” and “Underworld: The Stygian Abyss.”
Woo is currently working on Battle of Red Cliff – China's biggest-budgeted feature to date. Written by Wang Hui-ling, based on the classic Chinese novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms,” the film is set in the final days of the Han Dynasty in the year 208 and covers the war that established the Three Kingdoms period, when China had three rulers. Historians reckon 1 million soldiers took part in the original battle of Red Cliff. Woo plans to set up six units to simultaneously shoot various scenes for the war epic.