Ke Huy Quan is prepared for extra hard-hitting action as Lionsgate has tapped the actor to star in Fairytale in New York.

It’s been completely pretty to witness Ke Huy Quan’s return following the success of Everything Everywhere All at Once, and he’s displaying no indicators of slowing down. Lionsgate introduced in the present day that it has simply closed a deal for Ke Huy Quan to star in Fairytale in New York, a brand new action thriller from Sisu director Jalmari Helander.

The official description reads: “On Christmas Eve in New York City, 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.” The movie is written by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani, with Beau Flynn producing by his FlynnPictureCo. banner.

Adam Fogelson, chair, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, stated, “As quickly as we watched Sisu, we knew Jalmari was a filmmaker we wished to be in enterprise with once more. Fairytale in New York is a wildly entertaining, thrill trip of an action movie and an emotionally resonant story about household. And each as soon as in some time, an actor hits their prime—Ke Huy Quan is having that second proper now and his deep expertise crafting action in entrance of and behind the digital camera in addition to his distinctive likability make him the right actor for this undertaking.“

Quan has a number of main initiatives developing, together with Love Hurts, an action comedy in which he performs a seemingly mild-mannered realtor with a darkish secret that he’s determined to go away behind. “Quan stars as Marvin Gable, a realtor working the Milwaukee suburbs, where ‘For Sale’ signs bloom. Gable receives a crimson envelope from Rose (Ariana DeBose), a former partner-in-crime that he had left for dead. She’s not happy,” reads the synopsis. “Now, Marvin is thrust back into a world of ruthless hitmen, filled with double-crosses and open houses turned into deadly warzones. With his brother Knuckles (Daniel Wu), a volatile crime lord, hunting him, Marvin must confront the choices that haunt him and the history he never truly buried.” The movie is about to hit theaters on February seventh.

He will even star alongside Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown in The Electric State. Directed by the Russo brothers, the movie is about in an alternate, retro-futuristic model of the Nineties, the place sentient robots resembling cartoons and mascots, who as soon as served peacefully amongst people, now dwell in exile following a failed rebellion. The movie will debut on Netflix on March 14th.