The vast majority of video game movies are absolute guff, but there are times when you stop and think "hey, that could actually be pretty good" - and this is one of those times. According to Deadline, a big screen adaptation of Sleeping Dogs is in the works, and it'll apparently star popular actor and martial artist Donnie Yen. Obviously, that sounds like a promising start.
We don't want to jinx this whole thing, but again, this at least seems like it could be... okay. We're picturing your typical martial arts action movie with a Sleeping Dogs skin, and that's surely something that can't go too badly? It's unconfirmed whether the film will follow the game's gritty story or whether it'll simply take inspiration from it; it does involve an undercover cop who's tasked with taking down a dangerous group of triads, and it'll be set in Hong Kong, but we've little doubt that it'll take some creative liberties. Either way, just hearing this news kind of makes us want to play it again.
Do you have any hopes for a Sleeping Dogs movie? Shed a tear for that sequel in the comments section below.
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The lead from the Raid movies would be even better. Donnie is getting on a bit now.
@Bigkopman But that guy from the Raid is Indonesian (Malay), though. Wei is Chinese.
@JoeBlogs Whut?
Also, I hope they don't cast Caucasians to replace the rest of the Asian supporting characters.
"We'd rather have a sequel but okay"
Absolutely and definitely true. I reckon this could grow to be such a good franchise if given the chance.
Man I love Sleeping Dogs! I played it twice and in one of them I did platinum! Anyway this game helped me get in the yakuza series and I'm grateful for that! Hoped we could have a sequel but I do love Donnie Yen so I'm excited for the movie
Whoo?
End of the day. It cant be any worse than whats gone before. And its an interesting and underused setting in movies. Could be decent
I don't doubt Sleeping Dogs could work as a movie, but even if it was a good movie, I still want a sequel.
@WanderingBullett I know but it doesn't really matter in movies where people come from these days. It could even be mentioned in the plot. Just think the role would be better suited to a younger martial artist and Iko Kuwais seems to be at his peak.
I loved the hand to hand combat in sleeping dogs, the shooting wasn't bad either, the only downside were the vehicle handling but would love to see a sequel.
The title will be "The Way of The Pork Bun."
Nice I have this on my XB1 GWG list backlog!
Hey the main guy who's like a punk st the beginning is a perfect movie character with the kick ass mom with her cleaver lol!
@JoeBlogs Hmm, they could cast him as the villain but that really depends on how faithful to the game they want the story to be. If not, they could also cast someone like Tony Jaa as well.
If Will Yun Lee isn't at least offered a role, it'll be a travesty.
I love sleeping dogs story, great game too.
Hopefully this works as a movie!
If they want this to be good, they should get a South Korean director to film it.Kim Jee-woon, Park Chan-wook or Lee Jung-beom. Anyone who's watched the final knife fight in Man from Nowhere will know what I'm on about. Korean films always have the perfect blend of thrill, plot, grit and vicious violence
No Wei this will be as good as the game.
I'm not supposed to be excited for video game films but Sleeping Dogs is basically full of martial arts film cliches, so this could actually work. Depends who they get in as director - and more importantly who they cast as the pork buns salesman
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