Too Cool to Kill

Too Cool to Kill (2022)

这个杀手不太冷静

Wei Chenggong, a working actor with big dreams, finally appears to get his big break when actress Milan invites him to play the lead role of "Killer Karl" in a new play. Little does Wei Chenggong know, he has fallen into a perilous conspiracy where all the villains are real, and only through his acting skills and good deal of luck will he be able to make it out alive.

Date of release
2022-02-01
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (54)
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Action, Comedy
Director
Xing Wenxiong

Casting

Interesting facts

Too Cool to Kill is a 2022 Chinese action comedy film, based on the 2008 Japanese film The Magic Hour. It stars Wei Xiang as an amateur actor who is invited to play a leading role in a film and ends up drawn into a dangerous situation. It was released in China on 1 February 2022 and in the United States and Canada on 18 February 2022. It is Xing Wenxiong's feature film directorial debut.

Production

Too Cool to Kill is an adaptation of Kōki Mitani's 2008 Japanese film The Magic Hour.

It was written and directed by Xing Wenxiong (邢文雄), one of the writers of My People, My Homeland. It is Xing's feature film directorial debut. It was produced by Yan Fei (闫非) and Peng Damo (彭大魔). Filming began on 23 June 2021, and on the same day it was announced that the film would be released on Chinese New Year 2022.

For one scene in the film, Wei Xiang had to speak Italian, a language which he had never studied and felt stressed about speaking, according to costar Zhou Dayong. Wei said in an interview that the crew gave him a translator, who spoke to him after shooting and helped him memorize the lines.

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