Movieline has posted a few snippets from their interview with Red Cliff director John Woo, whose new film is the first feature length film he has released since 2003's abysmal Paycheck. It's his return to Chinese language films, but as he tells Movieline's Kyle Buchanan, "It doesn’t mean I have given up on Hollywood."

Nope, instead he has a pair of films he would like to make, the first being an English-language remake of John-Pierre Melville's outstanding 1967 feature Le Samourai, a film Buchanan says Woo already touched upon so much with his Chow Yun-Fat starrer The Killer, that he has nearly remade the film already. I haven't seen that film, but the idea of someone trying to get Le Samourai remade now seems impossible. Woo says, "I want to make it into a modern film," but the quiet nature of Melville's film simply isn't a feature that can be brought to life in a modern world. At the very least it wouldn't be successful if it was a mirror image, and it certainly doesn't seem like a movie Hollywood would touch.

The other film he is eying is a historical period film called Marco Polo looking at the tales of explorer Marco Polo and his relationship with Kublai Khan. "It's one of my favorite stories," Woo told Buchanan.

Woo's Red Cliff was released as a two-part film in China back in 2008. It has been cut down into one film and will premiere on VOD, XBOX Live and Amazon on Oct. 22nd and opens in theaters November 20th. You can check out the trailer here.

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