‘Stranglehold’ movie minus Woo and Fat = What’s the Fucking Point?
By most standards, Stranglehold wasn’t a terribly good game. Through no fault of it’s own, the game felt like a 2nd rate knockoff of Max Payne (which is ironic considering how much Max Payne ripped off John Woo to begin with). But it was still fun to step into the shoes of Chow Yun-Fat’s badass loose-cannon detective Tequila, even if the storyline was pretty hairbrained.
So, now that a film adaptation has been announced, it seems like we’ll finally see a proper sequel to Hard Boiled – and a long-awaited cinematic reunion between John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat.
“There was once a sequel to Hard Boiled, from an idea that I had,” states Chang. “I developed it for Chow Yun-fat and had commissioned a pretty good script written by John Jarrell. The project is now inactive.” The Stranglehold movie is this proposed Hard-Boiled sequel — what’s more, Chow Yun-Fat does not appear involved.
“We are now developing a movie of STRANGLEHOLD, and just signed the writers Fabrizio & Passmore,” Chang continues. (Jeremy Passmore and Andre Fabrizio are also penning the Mission In Action update.) Chang adds that the Stranglehold flick will be “a hardcore action film” and will be set in both Hong Kong and Chicago just as in the game.
“We will keep some of the action set pieces of the game, but the story is different,” Chang says. “It is a total reinvention, with a much younger Tequila. In other words, it is not a sequel to Hard-Boiled.” A much younger Tequila? In other words, a difficult role for the 53-year-old Chow Yun-Fat to play.
Does this really sound interesting to anybody?
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