He's super-hot from The Good, the Bad and the Weird and I Saw the Devil, and now Korean director Kim Jee-Woon has scored his first Hollywood gig, in the form of **Last Stand.
Latino Review picked up the skinny that Lionsgate have chosen Jee-Woon to bring Andrew Knauer's script to life. His story, which rocked the Blacklist of buzzy unproduced screenplays last year, is pitched as a kind of High Noon crossed with The Fast and the Furious, with the leader of a drug cartel breaking out of a courthouse and speeding to the Mexican border in a 200mph Gumpert Apollo. In pursuit: a small-town sheriff and his rookie crew. So it's Smokey and the Bi-Turbo V8 Intercooled Supercar.
On the one-hand, it's a disposable one-note high-concept. But if you've seen TGTB&TW (check out the trailer if not, and have a look at I Saw the Devil while you're at it) you'll have some idea of the mad energy that Jee-Woon is likely to bring to this. So we shouldn't be looking at another wreck like Gone in 60 Seconds.
Shooting starts in the spring.