John Woo Tag

Nick Kolakowski: John Woo is Remaking ‘The Killer.’ But Why? Directors don’t often remake their own movies. Off the top of my head, I can only think of Michael Haneke redoing “Funny Games” twenty years apart, Hitchcock giving “The Man Who Knew Too Much” a later-career revamp with a tweaked plot, and Takashi Shimizu directing both the Japanese and American versions of “The Grudge.” Such instances are few and far between, in other words. This isn’t suprising; given the effort it takes for even a powerful director to get aRead More