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John Woo to direct Rainbow Six. Check themoviebox.net in the news section. The question is, will it be _base_d on the book or the video game? This is John Woo. There will be intense issues of honour and betrayal. There will be doves flying through the _frame_ in crucial moments. Any _object_ even remotely combustible will explode hugely whenever a bullet hits in the same county. At least one hero will escape a threatening situation by killing several enemies, firing a pistol from each hand, flying through the air, sideways, in slow motion. A senior hero and one of the more honourable-but-evil Bad Guys will have a conversation from opposite sides of a wall while reloading, before shooting it out along a glass-walled corridor. Expect at least one of the Good Guys to die nobly. Bad Guys who ride motorcycles will usually wear black, with black visors, on black trail bikes, firing machine-pistols one-handed while doing so (the double-barreled warehouse sequence in 'Hard Boiled' is exceptional) Not sure how much of that was in either the book or the game, but that's what you get with John Woo (whose work I've loved ever since A Better Tomorrow - and I had copies of 'The Killer'[1] and 'Hard Boiled' before he ever directed 'Broken Arrow'). Expect an exciting ride, but it won't cleave closely to either book or game except that there will be much ammunition expended, many Bad Guys turned into Dead Guys, and it'll be thoroughly entertaining.[2] [1] I am told, but don't have the Cantonese to confirm, that the original _title_ of 'The Killer' actually translates as A Pair Of Blood Splattering Heroes' - IMDB shows it as Bloodshed of Two Heroes ) [2] I wasn't a great fan of Rainbow Six the book by the standards I was used to from Mr Clancy, but it still made for acceptable reading: and the original game and its sequels were superb. I like Woo a lot, too. Along with Clint Eastwood, he makes the best guy movies of any modern director
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