47 Ronin Sequel Directed by Ron Yuan

[kylor]

‘47 Ronin’ Sequel Sets ‘Mulan’s Ron Yuan As Director

EXCLUSIVE: Mulan actor Ron Yuan will sit in the director’s chair for the upcoming untitled 47 Ronin sequel. The action-fantasy pic will be produced by Universal 1440, and Netflix will distribute. Production is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2021.

The sequel to the 2013 pic will be set 300 years into the future in an exotic cyberpunk world. The film will be a fresh, re-imagined take on the original feature and will incorporate horror along with modern samurai and ninja elements. John Orlando, Share Stallings and Tim Kwok will serve as producers. Universal 1440 Entertainment is a production entity of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

“I’m incredibly excited to be working with Universal and the producing team on this genre-blending, martial arts, action, horror and cyber-punk film,” said Yuan. “This will be a fun, intense, supercharged thrill ride for viewers globally.”

The original film was directed by Carl Rinsch and written by Chris Morgan and Hossein Amini from a story conceived by Morgan and Walter Hamada. Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Rinko Kikuchi and Ko Shibasaki starred in 47 Ronin, which was based on Chūshingura. The pic tells a fictionalized account of the titular 47 rōnin, a real-life group of samurai in the 18th century who set out to avenge the death of their master who was killed by a merciless shogun. 47 Ronin banked over $38 million at the domestic box office and $151 million globally.

Yuan directed CMC/Lionsgate’s Step Up China: Year for the Dance and was the action director for Jason Statham’s Wild Card and China-Taiwan co-production of Black and White: Dawn of Justice, Sony’s Black Dynamite and Angel of Death.

Onscreen, Yuan stars as Sergeant Qiang in Disney’s live-action adaptation of Mulan, directed by Niki Caro and will lend his voice to Pearl Films and Stephen Chow’s animated feature The Monkey King for Netflix. He also stars in Bao Tran’s upcoming action-comedy The Paper Tigers for XYZ Films.

Yuan is repped by UTA, Greene & Associates, Authentic Talent and Literary Management and Arlene Thorton & Associates.

https://deadline.com/2020/08/47-roni...or-1203010764/

[imsounoriginal]

Surprised it's a sequel and not just a remake/reboot.

[Cremildo]

If this can get greenlit, so can the final Alien prequel.

[Creed]

But....how? The first was a huge bomb!

[Rizor]

Hmmm. I wondered why Universal bothered with that 4K release. Guess they're trying to turn this into a cheap franchise like that recent Backdraft sequel, the Jarhead movies or The Man with the Iron Fists 2.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Hahahahaha. You serious bro? One of the biggest box office gets a sequel. Even none the less a Netflix one. While great movies never will get a sequel never.

[Gacivory]

Sounds more like a remake. But I’m in for a Cyberpunk world.

[pikeman1]

cyberpunk setting is intriguing, but Universal 1440's DtV films are kinda cheap and bad, mostly (I like their Chucky sequels, though)
maybe I'll give this a chance when it's out

[Samus Aran]

After what they did to Jarhead, someone at Universal 1440 is probably drooling at the prospect of turning Born on the Fourth of July and Lone Survivor into action movie franchises.

[Chaotic]

Originally Posted by Rizor

Hmmm. I wondered why Universal bothered with that 4K release. Guess they're trying to turn this into a cheap franchise like that recent Backdraft sequel, the Jarhead movies or The Man with the Iron Fists 2.

And the 20 Scorpion King movies.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

And the 20 Scorpion King movies.

Along with countless bring it On, Jarhead and Death Race sequels.

Plus sequels to How High, Backdraft, Bulletproof, Grand daddy care and The Benchwarmers 2.

Who buys that crap at Walmart?

[Samus Aran]

Just wait until they make R.I.P.D. 2 starring Ray Liotta and Jared Padalecki.

[AKORIS]

zero interest in this.... just like the first one....

[Darkstream]

The sequel to the 2013 pic will be set 300 years into the future in an exotic cyberpunk world. The film will be a fresh, re-imagined take on the original feature and will incorporate horror along with modern samurai and ninja elements.

Color me intrigued! Sounds like something right up my alley.

[dallywhitty]

Haven't seen the original, but that description sounds amazing.

[MifuneFan]

Why even make it a sequel? Just make it its own thing.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Why even make it a sequel? Just make it its own thing.

Apparently a name I guess sells. No matter how little known it is.

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

But I’m in for a Cyberpunk world.

This has me interested.

[Darkstream]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Why even make it a sequel? Just make it its own thing.

I suspect it's more of a reimagining of the same concept, but there may be some reference made to the events of the previous film as part of this new film's history. I doubt we'll be seeing any of the same characters from the first film show up in such a far distant future. But who knows? I could be wrong.

[Poya]

BTW, this guy is the best Scorpion.