Ke Huy Quan Set to Star in Lionsgate Action Thriller FAIRYTALE IN NEW YORK
Academy Award winning actor Ke Huy Quan (The Goonies, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Loki) is set to star in the Lionsgate action thriller titled Fairytale in New York.
Jalmari Helander (Sisu) is directing, and the studio is launching international sales at AFM. Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani, Flynn’s collaborators on DC superhero pic Black Adam, wrote the script.
Set to be produced by FlynnPictureCo.’s Beau Flynn, “Fairytale takes place on Christmas Eve in New York City, as an unassuming cab driver takes one last ride before going to celebrate the holiday with his estranged son.
After a run-in with a gang of criminals, he embarks on a relentless pursuit to retrieve his kid’s priceless Christmas gift.”
In a statement on the new project, Adam Fogelson, chair, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, said, “As soon as we watched Sisu, we knew Jalmari was a filmmaker we wanted to be in business with again.
Fairytale in New York is a wildly entertaining, thrill ride of an action film and an emotionally resonant story about family.
And every once in a while, an actor hits their prime—Ke Huy Quan is having that moment right now and his deep experience crafting action in front of and behind the camera as well as his exceptional likability make him the perfect actor for this project.”
Quan can next be seen in the action flick Love Hurts, in theaters on February 7, 2025.
via: Deadline