Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once) is set to star in the action thriller Fairytale in New York from director Jalmari Helander (Sisu).
The film is set 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.
“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,” said Lionsgate’s Adam Fogelson.
Stay tuned.
SOURCE: Deadline
