“Love Hurts” Teaser Poster
Ke Huy Quan – best known for his child roles in 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1985’s The Goonies and perhaps less so for wiping the floor with Bolo in 1991’s Breathing Fire – is making a hard-hitting comeback with an upcoming actioner, titled Love Hurts (previously known as titled With Love)
A Hollywood action lead for Quan should come as no surprise, given his critically acclaimed comeback role for 2022’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, which earned Quan a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
In Love Hurts, Quan will play Marvin Gable, a real estate agent in the Milwaukee suburbs whose life is upended when he receives a mysterious crimson envelope. It comes courtesy of Rose, his former partner-in-crime he left for dead (via EW).
Love Hurts marks the directorial debut of Jonathan Eusebio, a longtime 2nd unit director and stunt coordinator whose recent credits include 2022’s Violent Night and Obi-Wan Kenobi (via Deadline). It should also be noted that Quan is no stranger to action choreography, as he was part of Corey Yuen’s team in the 2001 Jet Li thriller, The One.
Joining Quan for film are Daniel Wu (Caught in Time, Sky on Fire), Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), Lio Tipton (Two Night Stand), Cam Gigandet (Never Back Down), Mustafa Shakir (Brawl in Cell Block 99), Stephanie Sy (Violent Night) and Marshawn Lynch (Bottoms).
Producing Love Hurts is David Leitch (Atomic Blonde, John Wick) and Kelly McCormick’s 87North, with Luke Passmore writing from an original script by Josh Stoddard (Warrior) and Matthew Murray.
Love Hurts hits theaters on February 7, 2025 from Universal Pictures. Watch a New Featurette, followed by its recent Trailer below:
This could be great. Jonathan Eusebio is coming into his own as an action director as he had great tutelage. Ke Huy Quan is also no stranger to action choreography as he was part of Corey Yuen’s team in The One. I’m sure Quan and Eusebio could come up with great stuff together.
Thanks Andrew. I noted that in the article after reading your comment. =)
That’s an interesting cast. I hope they’re training to get in on the action. Ariana DeBose would adapt well to fight choreography with her Broadway background, and given that Cam Gigandet practices Krav Maga and MMA, I would hope this is a better showcase for him than the bad camerawork and choppy editing of Never Back Down.
Is it just me, or does it seem like a discarded Jackie Chan idea?
Just pretend its a Short Round Indy spinoff and enjoy
Or I can pretend it’s an Asian answer to Scott Pilgrim, I guess…
Everything about this screams Jackie Chan, from the fights, to the way it’s filmed, and even his facial expressions. I assume it’s an homage of sorts.
I dig it! 87 North’s output usually emphasizes close quarters combat, but they’re changing up the formula by having Kung-fu be the order of the day. It looks like there will be a nice variety of action, banter, and pulpy characters.
Well…
Nah, thanks, I’ll watch a 80’s Jackie Chan again instead.
Nice, hopefully this sparks interest in getting a genre blu-ray label like MVD or Vinegar Syndrome to look into putting out a release of “Breathing Fire”.
It pisses me off that this has a 19% rotten rating with critics, and is projected to not make money. Love Hurts was a feel good, uncomplicated romp that gave me what I wanted.
87 North essentially made a Jackie Chan film, and Jackie himself could have done something like this. Ke Huy Quan is just as likable and enthusiastic as ever, and is great in his action scenes. I was hoping Ariana DeBose would get to shine, and while she doesn’t fight too much, she’s not wasted either. Her musical theatre training serves her well in this environment.
I was hoping we’d get a good Ke Huy Quan vs Daniel Wu fight, and it was nice. They were very much in tune with one another and showed great technique. As much as I love seeing grappling in films, it was great to see Kung Fu featured so prominently in a Hollywood film. More people need to watch this.
Ariana DeBose needs a new agent. Instead of leveraging her Academy Award win, she’s appeared in 3 flops since: Argylle, Kraven the Hunter and now Love Hurts. Critics are sometimes wrong and box office performance doesn’t necessarily equal quality (Avatar 2) BUT to appear in so many flops in succession cannot be good for her career.
Well, she’s not the only actor who’s had this happen to them, and I’m sure she’ll recover just fine. I haven’t seen Argyle, but people claim that’s another movie that the masses “just didn’t get.”
I also blame the studio for releasing this on SuperBowl weekend when less people are going to the movies.
Argyle isn’t some misunderstood masterpiece that audiences will rediscover in the future. People got it fine…a Matthew Vaughn wankfest that doesn’t work as a comedy or action movie despite starring some very talented actors, doubles down on the idea that the first Kingsman might have been a fluke.
Well, I don’t think the masses have that mindset either. They’re just fickle and certain movies only do well if they were released at a precise moment in time.
And..let’s not forget the massive mis-marketing with every trailer convincing you Henry Cavill was the lead, only for the movie to reveal he was nothing more than an extended cameo with Sam Rockwell being the actual hero. Rockwell’s talented but he’s no Leading Man.
And here’s where I get politically incorrect….
Bryce Dallas Howard in this film looked like she was hitting the buffet lines more frequently than the gym. Kinda makes sense for her character as she’d left the world of espionage behind for the more sedate one of writing books(I mean how many ripped best selling authors have you seen?)
But to then have a climactic action scene where this chunky out of shape lady takes on an army of assassins while skating on top of an oil spill was stretching incredulity a bit too far (Sorry Bryce, it’s one thing for Statham to do it in THE TRANSPORTER, quite another to see you attempt it, that too with a generous assist from stunt doubles and CGI)
In fact my vote for the Vaughn movie that didn’t get so much love but should have was the Kingsman prequel THE KING’S MAN. Now THAT was fun.
I believe that Mr Right proved Sam Rockwell has the action hero chops. If he’s portrayed just as well in Argyle, I’d be satisfied.
Rockwell long ago proved that’s he a good leading man in the movie Moon, where he played at two or three roles. He’s an excellent offbeat character actor, good at both drama and comedy. It’s Cavill who, until recently, really hasn’t made any major impression as a leading man outside of the two times he played Superman.
I do like him in Witcher. He was also good in Immortals and Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. I hope he’s still doing the new Highlander.
As I said, I do think Rockwell is talented, but for me lacks the “X Factor” that separates good actors who can play leading roles in smaller movies from those who bring a real “Movie Star” presence to big movies.
For example, there’s no denying Rockwell was an excellent baddie in “Iron Man 2”. But can he BE Iron Man?
No.
Maybe there is a big movie that he would do well in as the star, but it would have to be the right project.
We all know the “movie star” archetype that Downey Jr, Andy Lau, and the like fit, but not every big time leading man has to be like or look like them.
I don’t see him as Iron Man, but he certainly could have been another superhero if he wasn’t Iron Monger II.
Ke Huy Quan also fits that bill where he can be a big time leading man despite not having the “cosmetic” qualities.
well, 19% is a bit harsh, but this isn’t a good film in any way, serviceable at its best.
the main problem is that the characters are boring, and i mean really fucking boring, all of them.
the best one of them was a pretty generic Blade rip off with some cool knives and that’s that, the other ones were even plainer.
If it’s not good in any way, then maybe 19% isn’t that harsh! And why is Mustafa Shakir like Blade? He doesn’t wear sunglasses, wear all black, and of all the blades he uses, none of them are a sword.
isn’t that harsh, just a little bit.
Blade wears all black too, and if Mr darts here had sunglasses and a sword he’d have been literally the same character, not just a regular rip off.