Rejoice, We’re Already Getting One other Entry within the ‘Ke Huy Quan Kicks Ass’ Style

It’s taking place about 40 years later than it ought to’ve however Ke Huy Quan is changing into a full-on motion star. After successful an Oscar for his action-packed comeback function in Everything Everywhere All At Once, Quan landed the lead in Universal’s 2025 action film Love Hurts and now he’s signed on for a Lionsgate motion movie referred to as Fairytale in New York. Yup, the Ke Huy Quan Kicks Ass style is simply getting began.

Fairytale in New York takes place “on Christmas Eve in New York Metropolis,” the place “an unassuming cab driver takes one final trip earlier than going to have fun the vacation together with his estranged son. After a run-in with a gang of criminals, he embarks on a relentless pursuit to retrieve his child’s priceless Christmas present.” So, half Jingle All of the Manner, half John Wick, and half A Christmas Story. We find it irresistible.

Plus, it’s directed by Jalmari Helander, who launched an unimaginable motion movie earlier this 12 months referred to as Sisu. “As quickly as we watched Sisu, we knew Jalmari was a filmmaker we wished to be in enterprise with once more,” the chairman of Lionsgate, Adam Fogelson, mentioned in a press launch. “Fairytale in New York is a wildly entertaining, thrill trip of an motion movie and an emotionally resonant story about household. And each every so often, an actor hits their prime—Ke Huy Quan is having that second proper now and his deep expertise crafting motion in entrance of and behind the digicam in addition to his distinctive likability make him the proper actor for this venture.”  Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani (Black Adam) wrote the movie.

And whereas Fairytale in New York doesn’t appear to be a few fairy story, the previous few years for Ke Huy Quan have been precisely that. After immediately rising to stardom within the Eighties with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in addition to The Goonies, the actor discovered himself largely out of Hollywood. He saved lively although, working as a stunt coordinator and extra, earlier than lastly touchdown a pleasant, large function in that eventual Finest Image winner.

From there, he joined the MCU in Loki and, in 2025, he’ll play a equally unassuming man motion man in Love Hurts, out in February, in addition to a task within the Russo Brothers’ sci-fi Netflix film, The Electrical State.

No phrase on a launch date for Fairytale in New York however it could be wild if it wasn’t in theaters for the 2025 vacation season.

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