Director James McTiegue (V for Vendetta) has unveiled the trailer for his new Joel Silver produced action film Ninja Assassin. The new film (due to hit Australian cinemas 26th November 2009) is written by Matthew Sand (first time writer) and J. Michael Straczynski (veteran writer and creator of TV’s Babylon 5 and many comic books) and stars Rain, Naomie Harris, Randall Duk Kim, Sung Kang and Rick Yune.
Check out the MTV released trailer below:
I read an article several months ago that said that McTiegue wanted to make a movie away from the Wachowski Brothers (they wrote and produced V for Vendetta) to establish himself as his own identity, I guess this is the film. Funnily, it looks a lot like a Wachowski film, go figure. That being said, the film looks fun and the action looks intense. I will go see it. On a side note, McTiegue is apparently signed to direct the new X-Men film, X-Men Origins: Magneto.
The plot, according to IMDB is as follows:
Ninja Assassin follows Raizo (Rain), one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.
In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East. Defying the orders of her superior, Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles), Mika digs into top secret agency files to learn the truth behind the murders. Her investigation makes her a target, and the Ozunu Clan sends a team of killers, led by the lethal Takeshi (Rick Yune), to silence her forever. Raizo saves Mika from her attackers, but he knows that the Clan will not rest until they are both eliminated. Now, entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of Europe, Raizo and Mika must trust one another if they hope to survive and finally bring down the elusive Ozunu Clan.
