After rumours early last year that a Sleeping Dogs movie was in the works, everyone's favourite Donnie Yen has recently announced on his Instagram page that he'll indeed be taking up the role of undercover officer Wei Shen. The acclaimed Hong Kong actor - who should be best known for his role in xXx: Return of Xander Cage, a film we'll never not shamelessly plug - showed off a few photos of him side-by-side with the game's protagonist, along with the caption "Sometimes great things take a bit of time. Sleeping Dog[s] is [in] motion, you guys ready for this?"
By the sounds of it, it's still a long way off despite the photos - the IMdb page lists the film as being in pre-production, while no other actors or even a director have been named yet. Original Film is slated to produce the movie, though, and they have experience in schlock, having produced the Fast and Furious and xXx series, as well as early-2000s favourite S.W.A.T.
While there's no news on a second Sleeping Dogs game, we can always hope that box office success for the upcoming movie could tempt Square Enix to kickstart a second instalment, despite developer United Front Games sadly shutting down two years ago.
Are you excited for a Sleeping Dogs film with Donnie Yen at the helm, or would you still rather have the game? Jam with Samuel L. Jackson in the comments below.
[source instagram.com, via imdb.com]
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I think a movie could be cool, but a sequel to the game would be great, please and thank you.
@Quintumply maybe if the movie is successfull it can get us a sequel I loved the game and it's one of the only open worlds I finished 2 times, 1 on pc in a not so legal copy (sorry) and then one on ps3 when it was free on plus (I bought it later to support the developers only)! Anyway I did platinum with my cousin and I think this game is a big help in the fact that I love Yakuza!!
Anyway Donnie Yen is very very cool! And Ip Man is one of the best kung fu movies EVER. Also he was in Rogue One...XXX is bad and you should be ashamed and banned for this
I could have sworn I read that a sequel was coming somewhere.
@Tasuki Triad Wars yeah that was Cancelled
@Areus No not Triad Wars from my understanding that was similar but not a sequel. It was a full blown Sleeping Dogs 2.
It won't be Sleeping Dogs if I don't see anybody getting their face pounded with a public telephone, having their melon slammed in a car door, getting stuffed head first into a speaker, thrown onto a crate of swordfish, drowned in a toilet, scorched on an oven hob, fried on an electric circuit board, crushed by a car engine, thrown onto a meathook.......
I'd rather have a game, but I'm not adverse to a film adaptation. The game was inspired by Hong Kong action movies, after all.
I still need to play the game, but looking forward to the movie!
Hopefully it profits enough to greenlight a second game.
I hope they stock up on pork buns, for he who does not eat pork buns is never a whole man!!
Loved this game on PS3 but the ps4 version for me kept crashing which is a shame was such a fun game plus had a cracking soundtrack
Such an underrated game. I know I'm in the minority but I had way more fun with this than GTA V.
@Splat i feel exactly the same way
XXX, SWAT, Fast and Furious im not a fan of any of these movies.
I'm hoping it's good, I like some of Donnie Yen's movies, and I think he would be a pretty good fit for this movie adaptation. Now hopefully they don't screw it up.
Donnie Yen will have some prep to do for this role. A diet of only pork buns and way over priced energy drinks and a fitness regime of putting on new clothes, walking out of the shop and beating up the guy who always mocks your clothing choice
@Rob_230 @Splat me too! This game was surprisingly good!
I'll admit that I am a little disappointed they didn't get Will Yun Lee to continue his role on the big screen. I'm still interested since I love the game but Will Yun Lee did a great job of voicing Wei.
Can... can we get a movie game?
I hope this dosent follow the street fighter, game to movie to game, path too closely.
Oh, look, the game at a discount! [sticks it in the pile] And I'll take pretty much anything with Donnie Yen.
Kind of an odd choice since he's pretty old and not the best at delivering energetic lines. Would've gone with Daniel Wu instead.
Hopefully the movie releases alongside an official sequel...but I doubt it
Oddly enough, I got the platinum in this yesterday. I was in a weird place where I'd finished my last game, but didn't want to start a new one because I know I've got to play something else if it ever comes in the post, so I went back and did the last couple of trophies in this. It's a good game. I would have rather liked another one.
I really would have preferred a sequel. The first game is so underrated. It was a great open world game. The city had so much character and atmosphere. The characters were well written and the story was captivating.
@Gatatog I was pleasantly surprised to see Will Yun Lee in the new Netflix series Altered Carbon. He has some awesome fight scenes. It makes me wish he would be playing the live-action Wei Shen too.
But didn’t they already make a “Sleeping Dogs” movie?
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