Director John Woo must be on some kind of caffeine rush. After not making a movie for five years, he now has a handful of projects all raring to get going. With the box-office success of the first part of Red Cliff across Asia, Woo is now in post-production working on the epic's second half. Previously he had also announced his plan to direct the period romance 1949 with Chang Chen and Korean star Song Hye-kyo.
According to film trade publication Variety, Woo's schedule is about to go into overdrive. He is ready to enter the comic-book genre with a screen adaptation of Radical Comics' Caliber, which takes the Arthurian legend to the American Old West with Knights of the Round Table becoming gunslingers. Woo and guns certainly have a history as a potent combination. The project is expected to be announced formally at the popular Comic-Con convention next week in California.
In the meantime, Woo has also attached his name to remaking a 1969 Alain Delon French crime drama called The Sicilian Clan and a story about Chinese immigrant labourers in 19th-century California, tentatively titled The Divide. He probably hasn't been this busy since he lived and worked in Hong Kong.