Ke Huy Quan will team up with Sisu director Jalmari Helander for a new Christmas-themed action thriller.
According to Deadline, Fairytale in New York “takes place on Christmas Eve in New York City, when a modest taxi driver takes one last ride before going to celebrate the holiday with his estranged son. After an encounter with a gang of criminals, he embarks on a relentless quest to recover his son's priceless Christmas gift.”
Helander directs from a script by Black Adam screenwriters Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani. The film reunites Helander with Lionsgate, who released the World War II action thriller Sisu in 2022. The film currently has a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Beau Flynn will produce under his FlynnPictureCo. production banner, which is also launching the upcoming live-action Moana movie for Disney. No other casting announcements have been made.
After winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for Everything Everywhere All at Once, Quan has added a slew of projects to his schedule. This includes the upcoming action comedy Love Hurts, starring Ariana DeBose and Marshawn Lynch, and the Russo Brothers' sci-fi action-adventure comedy The Electric State, also starring Millie Bobby Brown. Quan also recently lent his voice to Kung Fu Panda 4 and will appear in Zootopia 2.
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