John Woo‘s long awaited reboot of his 1989 classic The Killer has been set for an August 23rd release date on the Peacock streaming service and today, the official trailer has been released.

Nathalie Emmanuel (The Fast Saga, Game of Thrones) as Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead. But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler (Avatar’s Sam Worthington), Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman (Diana Silvers; Ma, Booksmart) in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee’s alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator (Golden Globe nominee Omar Sy; Jurassic World franchise, Lupin), and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past.

It’s clear they took the core plot of the original, gender reversed the Chow Yun-Fat role, and added some more hand-to-hand combat in addition to the heroic bloodshed style of gunplay. The script was written by Brian Helgeland, Josh Campbell and Matt Steucken. The film co-stars Eric Cantona, Aurelia Agel, and Said Taghmaoui.

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