Interview: Nathalie Emmanuel and Omar Sy on Working With John Woo on The Killer By ComingSoon Senior Movie News Editor Brandon Schreur spoke to and about . Emmanuel and Sy discussed working with John Woo on the , which is a remake of Woo’s 1989 film. “From the Oscar-winning producer of Oppenheimer, the kinetic action thriller stars Emmy nominee Nathalie Emmanuel (The Fast Saga, Game of Thrones) as Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead,” the synopsis for the movie reads.
“But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler (Avatar’s Sam Worthington), Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman (Diana Silvers; Ma, Booksmart) in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee’s alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator (Golden Globe nominee Omar Sy; Jurassic World franchise, Lupin), and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past.” The Killer is now streaming exclusively on Peacock. Aw, thank you.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it. I mean, yeah, it’s intense. When John Woo is like not only, ‘Do you want to make a movie with me?’ full stop, but it’s actually one of my most iconic movies and reimagine it.
You immediately feel the kind of stakes of that and how epic it is. A remake or a reimagining to happen with the originator, himself — yeah, there are no words. You know that you have to w.