'The Studios Don't Seem to Understand How Important This IP Is but We Will Get Them There' — Sleeping Dogs Movie Progresses as Marvel Star Simu Liu Confirms 'Script Draft Is Done'

The archetypal draught of the publication for the movie adaptation of Sleeping Dogs is "done."

That's according to Marvel prima Simu Liu, who revealed implicit the play that the publication for the movie was complete, albeit cautiously redacting immoderate details from the screenshot. He marked the quality by sharing a photograph of his ain sleeping dog.

in honour of our sleeping dogs publication draught being done, here’s my sleepy canine 👍 pic.twitter.com/l1KsFNDj5V

When a commenter responded to the bully quality and asked if the histrion and shaper had "worked things out" with the game's steadfast and IP-holder Square Enix, Liu said: "They’re perfectly great, it’s the studios that don’t look to recognize however important this IP is BUT we volition get them there."

If you were hoping for more, I'm acrophobic Liu shared small else, but it should beryllium bully quality nevertheless fixed the adaptation has been languishing successful improvement hellhole for astatine slightest 8 years.

As IGN has reported, Story Kitchen is starring the Sleeping Dogs unrecorded enactment diagnostic movie project, with Simu Liu, who plays Shang-Chi successful Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, producing and acceptable to play the pb relation of Wei Shen. Story Kitchen has signifier erstwhile it comes to video crippled adaptations, having worked connected everything from the Sonic the Hedgehog films to Netflix’s animated Tomb Raider series.

The archetypal adaptation was announced successful 2017 with Donnie Yen acceptable to star, but the movie disappeared a twelvemonth aboriginal and, earlier this year, Yen himself confirmed it had been scrapped, saying: "I spent a batch of clip and did a batch of enactment with these producers, and I adjacent invested immoderate of my ain wealth into obtaining the drafts and immoderate of the rights." Just a fewer weeks later, however, Liu tweeted to accidental helium was moving with the rights holders to bring the much-loved video crippled to the large screen.

Sleeping Dogs was archetypal released successful 2012 connected PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC and tells the communicative of detective Wei Shen arsenic helium infiltrates 1 of Hong Kong's notorious Triad transgression syndicates. While it failed to conscionable steadfast Square Enix's lofty income expectations, it is much-loved by fans and sequel hopes person followed it ever since. We thought Sleeping Dogs was great, penning successful IGN's Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition review: "Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition doesn't messiness overmuch with what made the archetypal crippled truthful great. And that's a bully thing." It returned an 8.5.

A sequel was canceled successful precocious 2013 conscionable earlier it entered production, and its archetypal developer, United Front Games, unopen down 3 years later.

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