Acting veteran Ron Yuan (“Step Up: Year of the Dance”) has been set to direct a sequel to the Keanu Reeves-led 2013 action-fantasy feature “47 Ronin” at Universal 1440 Entertainment (Universal’s home video production entity) and Netflix.
The story is set three centuries into the future in an exotic cyberpunk world and is dubbed a “fresh, re-imagined take on the original feature” and one that will incorporate horror and both modern samurai and ninja elements.
John Orlando, Share Stallings and Tim Kwok will serve as producers and filming is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2021.
Commercials director Carl Rinsch helmed the original film which made $151 million globally, but with its costly $175-225 million budget, disastrous production troubles poor reviews it was considered a major flop at the time.
Yuan has been acting since the early 1990s in films like “Fast and Furious,” “Olympus Has Fallen,” “The Accountant” and the upcoming “Mulan” along with multiple TV series like “Prison Break,” “Marco Polo,” “CSI: NY” and “Justified” and video games like “Star Wars: The Old Republic,” “Call of Duty: Black Ops II,” “Sleeping Dogs,” “Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception” and “Halo 4”. He’s also a stunt performer, stunt coordinator and fight choreographer .
Source: Deadline
