Rejoice, We’re Already Getting Another Entry in the ‘Ke Huy Quan Kicks Ass’ Genre

It’s happening about 40 years later than it should’ve but Ke Huy Quan is becoming a full-on enactment star. After winning an Oscar for his action-packed comeback relation successful Everything Everywhere All At Once, Quan landed the pb successful Universal’s 2025 enactment movie Love Hurts and present he’s signed connected for a Lionsgate enactment movie called Fairytale successful New York. Yup, the Ke Huy Quan Kicks Ass genre is conscionable getting started.

Fairytale successful New York takes spot “on Christmas Eve successful New York City,” wherever “an unassuming cab operator takes 1 past thrust earlier going to observe the vacation with his estranged son. After a run-in with a pack of criminals, helium embarks connected a relentless pursuit to retrieve his kid’s priceless Christmas gift.” So, part Jingle All the Way, part John Wick, and portion A Christmas Story. We emotion it.

Plus, it’s directed by Jalmari Helander, who released an unthinkable enactment movie earlier this twelvemonth called Sisu. “As soon arsenic we watched Sisu, we knew Jalmari was a filmmaker we wanted to beryllium successful concern with again,” the president of Lionsgate, Adam Fogelson, said successful a property release. “Fairytale successful New York is a wildly entertaining, thrill thrust of an enactment movie and an emotionally resonant communicative astir family. And each erstwhile successful a while, an histrion hits their prime—Ke Huy Quan is having that infinitesimal close present and his heavy acquisition crafting enactment successful beforehand of and down the camera arsenic good arsenic his exceptional likability marque him the cleanable histrion for this project.”  Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani (Black Adam) wrote the film.

And portion Fairytale successful New York doesn’t look to beryllium astir a fairy tale, the past fewer years for Ke Huy Quan person been precisely that. After instantly rising to stardom successful the 1980s with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom arsenic good arsenic The Goonies, the histrion recovered himself mostly retired of Hollywood. He kept progressive though, moving arsenic a stunt coordinator and more, earlier yet landing a nice, large relation successful that eventual Best Picture winner.

From there, he joined the MCU successful Loki and, successful 2025, he’ll play a likewise unassuming feline enactment feline successful Love Hurts, retired successful February, arsenic good arsenic a relation successful the Russo Brothers’ sci-fi Netflix movie, The Electric State.

No connection connected a merchandise day for Fairytale successful New York but it would beryllium chaotic if it wasn’t successful theaters for the 2025 vacation season.

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