[25 .06.2000] News
-Mission: Impossible 2 World Wide box office results
-Fox Lorber: The Killer DVD release date
-New John Woo DVDs in Hong Kong and Japan

[18 .06.2000] News
-New war film set to break Hawaii spending record
-New John Woo interview
-Extras needed for next John Woo movie. Time to go to Hawaii

[11 .06.2000] News
- Cristian Slater casted in Windtalkers
- Peace Hotel DVD re-released
- M:I-2 the original idea for film finale (never filmed)
- Mission Impossible parody site
- John Woo in Premiere (June/2000)
- M:I-2 Tokyo premiere
- Old John Woo / Jackie Chan pictures
- Tom Cruise wants Chow Yun-fat in M:I-3
- Tsui Hark is planning Better Tomorrow remake with female cast

[04 .06.2000] News
- John Woo and Chow Yun-fat doing a video game for PlayStation 2
-  Windtalkers script reviewed
-  Yahoo Clubs: Unofficial John Woo club
-  Ain't Is Cool News poll about the best Woo film to date

John Woo and Chow Yun-fat doing a video game for PlayStation 2

- The buzz is true...sort of. John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat are teaming up again, for a video game. Sony announced that they are developing a role-playing game based on Chow Yun-Fat's movie characters and famous gun-battle scenes from the classics which are made by John Woo. Woo agreed to attach his name to the project once he heard the idea. The game is set to released in 2002 for Playstation 2 with the fact that both stars agree to do the promotion together.

From Ain't It Cool News

Few articles in IgnMovies

May 26, 2000 Psychobabble with John Woo
May 25, 2000 Eastern Connection #5: Droppin' The Goo On John Woo
Mission: Impossible 2 review

Quote from interview:

IGN Movies: What's happening with your next film, Windtalkers?

Woo: We're gonna start filming in August.

IGN Movies: Is this one going to be a departure, because it sounds to be less of an action film?

Woo: There's a lot of action. It's a war movie. It's got a lot of drama. It's a movie about two marines. One is a Native American, Navajo. The other is a white man. They don't get along in the beginning, they learn from each other, then they have to work together to become friends.

IGN Movies: So who's playing opposite Nic Cage in the lead?

Woo: A Canadian Native. Adam Beach (Mystery, Alaska). It's a very touching story. Totally different from Mission.

IGN Movies: What are you doing after Windtalkers?

Woo: After Windtalkers I'll be doing Kings Ransom.

Windtalkers script reviewed

Moriarty column at Aint-it-cool-news.com. So this should become next John Woo movie. It has been said Windtalkers would be filmed at Hawaii. Film is set in the Pacific theater of
World War 2.


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"I got an e-mail from someone associated with MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE 2 this past week asking me for a quote about the movie and my reaction to it. If I hadn't read WINDTALKERS this week, I'd be too depressed to answer. Let me explain. WINDTALKERS is John Woo's next film. It's an MGM picture, written by John Rice and Joe Batteer. The latest draft is dated January 28, 2000, but this is a project that's been kicking around for a while. Right now, Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach are set to star in the film, casting that delights me to no end. Beach, for those of you who didn't see SM OKE SIGNALS, is a wonderful young Native American actor. For those who did see the film, he's the guy who wasn't Thomas. He has an intense screen presence that is perfect for the part of Carl Wahzee. Nic Cage, who had such wonderful chemistry with Woo on the deliriously deranged FACE/OFF, has a role of real depth and warmth in the form of Joe Enders. The canvass that Woo is painting on with this story is WWII, and if there's any earlier Woo film that this script reminds me of, it's the masterful BULLET IN THE HEAD.

As I sat in the theater on opening night and watched the empty ballet of M:I2, my thoughts kept drifting to the script I knew I had waiting at home. I'm of mixed opinion on Woo's work here in America. I've had a chance to meet and speak with Woo on many occasions and have always found him to be charming, intelligent, sharp, surprisingly shy in some ways. For someone who is so canonized by the American film press, though, Woo really hasn't delivered on his promise. HARD TARGET is hard to hold against him, since it was recut without his input. BROKEN ARROW does nothing for me. FACE/OFF is glorious, magnificent trash as a script, and thanks to Woo, it's trash played out as opera, brilliantly staged and balletic in its absurdity. I thought that in many ways, it deflated several of the Woo "trademarks," and I thought it might signify the place where Woo finally connected, where he got started making great American films. With M:I2, he is crippled by a terrible screenplay, and his hands are tied by the film's restrictive PG-13 rating. This is not a John Woo film. It is something that approximates the experience. It is the BEATLEMANIA of John Woo films. It's a bloodless copy of a brilliant original, and that is its greatest disappointment. I come not to harp on Woo, though, but to praise him. He's found a winner with WINDTALKERS. To be honest, I think he could kick SAVING PRIVATE RYAN's ass and make one of the great war adventure films if he's not careful. It's that cool a script. The action in it is that intense and motivated and brutal and powerful. There's things that are written here that would push the envelope for onscreen intensity, but that's okay. This film earns the right to show us these images. This is a story that deals with racial tension in a smart and realistic light. This is a film that pays due respect to the sacrifices of all those who served in WWII. This is a script that wants to be a visceral ride, an experience that we've never had in a theater before, but it also wants to tell a small and realistic human story in front of this particular massive backdrop. I hope Woo is given the full support of MGM here. This is the single best project I've seen them greenlight at that studio in the entire time I've been working with AICN. Take that, MGM. You're making something potentially great. Congratulations. Now don't fuck it up."

From: Ain't It Cool News

John Woo Yahoo!Club, find Woo fans to talk with

Yahoo! Clubs: Unoffcial John god Woo Club

John Woo poll, the best Woo film so far

Ain't it Cool News has a poll asking which one of Director John Woo's 29 directed Features is the BEST example of his work to date? Currently Hard-Boiled, The Killer and Face/Off were on top with over 20% each, Hard-Boiled leading with 28,9 %. Mission: Impossible 2 is rising with 7 %. Surprisingly King's Ransom - film without a final script, or the actual film made so far - is included on this poll. More surprising is that KR already has 5 votes now (May 31.). And Bullet in the Head was fifth!