July 16, 2008
John Woo will direct comicbook adaptation "
Caliber," to be unveiled at next week's Comic-Con in San Diego.
Pic looks likely to be a three-way co-production of Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil, Barry Levine's Radical Comics and Lion Rock, the U.S.-based shingle that Woo runs with longstanding partner Terence Chang.
Radical Comics' hit story sets King Arthur and his knights as 19th century gunslingers in the Pacific Northwest.
"
Caliber" is unlikely to be Woo's next pic. He is editing part two of his epic "
Red Cliff" for a January release in Asia and will deliver an international version shortly thereafter.
Part one of "
Red Cliff" opened July 10 in six Asian territories and scored a $26 million weekend.
Woo previously announced that he will helm Lion Rock's $40 million pic "
1949," a period romancer set against the tumultuous background of the Chinese Revolution. Production is skedded after completion of "
Red Cliff" and is now casting.
Woo's other Stateside projects include a remake of 1969 French crime drama "
The Sicilian Clan," which starred Alain Delon and Lino Ventura, and "
The Divide," the story of a Chinese laborer working on America's transcontinental railroads in the 19th century.