Takashi Miike is beloved by fans of Asian movies, having offered us the likes of Audition, Ichi the Killer, and 13 Assassins. He’s also incredibly prolific, often making three or four movies a year. However none of those movies has been in English. That might change though, as Deadline reports he’s in talks to helm The Outsider, with Tom Hardy likely to star.
Based on an original script developed by John Linson and rewritten by Andrew Baldwin, the film is set in post-World War II Japan, with Hardy playing an American G.I. who becomes a member of the notorious Japanese Yakuza organised crime world.
Joel Silver, who is best known for producing classics like Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and The Matrix, is on-board as well. As yet, Miike hasn’t signed on the dotted line, but many people will be keen to see an English-language film from the director.
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