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Josh Hartnett and Lee Byung-Hyun Get Bloody In Tran Ahn Hung’s I COME WITH THE RAIN
Posted by Todd Brown at 5:00pm.
Posted in Film News , Thriller, Drama, Asia.
Much acclaimed director Tran Ahn Hung of Cyclo and The Scent of Green Papaya fame looks set to take his career ina startling new direction with his new film, I Come With The Rain, an international crime thriller with a sterling global cast that includes Josh Hartnett, Lee Byung-Hyun, Takuya Kimura, Elias Koteas, Tran Nu Yen Khe and Shawn Yue. And, yes, I did just call Hartnett sterling ... the man has been saddled with a lot of bad roles thanks to the Hollywood pretty boy machine but he’s built for noir oriented stuff like this and he’s proven himself capable of very strong work when well matched to the material.
Kline, an ex-cop in Los Angeles traumatized by slaying a serial killer, is hired by a powerful corporate boss to go to the Philippines and find Shitao, his missing son. Kline’s leads take him to Hong Kong. Torn between good and evil, caught in the crossfire between a mafia drug ring and the police, he tracks down Shitao, who has become a mysterious vagrant.
Reading some of the more detailed materials available to buyers on this it’s clear that the film has a heavy supernatural element and Tran also promises a liberal dose of violence, a promise borne out by the bloody shots of stars Hartnett and Lee we’ve just dug up. Throw in soundtrack work by Radiohead and it’s hard to say no. You’ll find a gallery of nine stills at the link below.
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LT Roberts 02/18/2008 @ 7:00pm
Wow. Some very nice images in there and miles away from Scent… I’m very interested in this. And I’m not a major Hartnett fan, but I do like him enough in Noir roles that I can get with this. Lee is enough a reason, but this looks very intense… though I am not sure I understand that shower shot with the cross…??? Is that just a fan service scene for the girls? : )
The Visitor 02/18/2008 @ 8:17pm
a troubled white cop goes to asia to help solve mystery. has supernatural elements. sounds like the Taiwanese supernatural thriller Double Vision. that one had stellar casting too - David Morse and Tony Leung Ka-fai. Double Vision wasn’t too good but had great ideas.
Cyclo remains one of my absolute favourite films. Hated Vertical Rays Of The Sun though.
The Visitor 02/18/2008 @ 8:19pm
sorry, got it a little confused above. the troubled cop is Tony Leung’s character. Morse’s cop is an FBI agent, not very troubled.
sexyboy77 02/18/2008 @ 11:54pm
Now i was blown away…the cast is out of this world. Hartnett is the only guy other than Clive owen who truly is made for a film noir (Lucky Number Slevin)*. Lee Byung Hyun is one of the few Korean wave actors with charm and no 14 year-old female following(City of Violence)*.As for Takuya Kimura ,well he is the most charismatic japanese actor since Beat Takeshi (2046)*. To Top this a Radiohead soundtrack ( Stunned!!) and some really stylish stills. Fingers crossed for what can be the best Korean Mafia film-noir ever!
ChevalierAguila 02/19/2008 @ 11:29pm
Sounds interesting, good to see Lee Byung Hung in something that is not a romantic film (or G.I Joe, ugh)
Sowey 02/20/2008 @ 4:31am
At last. It’s been a long, long time since Tran was working on this project…or others. I talked with him back in 2002, I guess we’ll never see what his never-shot “Night Dogs” flick would look like (with Harvey Keitel, featuring an interesting use of an Hendrix song. He was really, really happy when talking about it).
deedee 02/20/2008 @ 12:33pm
lee byung hun in badass mode - i can’t wait. i, too, am sick of his string of gooey romances - good to see him going to the dark side. first the good the bad and the ugly and now this. nice.
i’m not a harnett fan but the rest of the cast is pretty damn good, and i like tran (although i’m sick to death of his wife) and cyclo in particular is riveting and looks incredible. this could be a hell of a movie.
dd
p.s. sboy, i think you mean bittersweet life, not city of violence.
deedee 02/20/2008 @ 12:37pm
sorry. weird, not ugly.
ChevalierAguila 02/20/2008 @ 9:54pm
Goes without saying that LBH romantic stuff pay his bills, and lets him try more risky stuff.
sexyboy77 02/21/2008 @ 3:27am
....you are right deedee, my bad!