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No Substance #198: John Woo's The Killer

No Substance #198: John Woo's The Killer

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Ben Peek
Sep 16, 2024
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A lot of director’s don’t remake their films, for obvious financial and time reasons, but some do. Alfred Hitchcock remade The Man Who Knew Too Much. Yasujirō Ozu remade A Story of Floating Weeds into Floating Weeds. Cecil B. DeMille remade The Ten Commandments. Michael Mann remade L.A. Takedown into Heat. And John Woo remade The Killer.

In fact, John Wo…

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