One of the most underrated open-world action games from the last generation is Square-Enix and United Fronts Games’Sleeping Dogs. The game was set in a realistic contemporary Hong Kong and focused on Wei Shen, an undercover Chinese-American cop attempting to take down the Sun On Yee Triad.
While the game launched in 2012 to critical acclaim and sold impressively for a new franchise, it failed to meet the publisher’s sales expectation and, tragically, its developer United Front Games shut down for good in late 2016 after canceling both a sequel toSleeping Dogsand an online spin-off titledTriad Wars.
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WhileSleeping Dogshas left little more than a cult following as its legacy, one such dedicated fan is no other than Donnie Yen, accomplished martial artist and star of films such asRogue One: A Star Wars Storyand theIp Manfilm series. In March 2017, Yen announced that he was teaming up with producer Neal H. Moritz and his production company Original Film, which is responsible for such blockbusters asI Am Legendand theFast & Furiousfranchise, toproduce a feature film adaptationof United Front Games' 2012 video game, with Yen himself staring as the game’s protagonist, Wei Shen.
While updates on the film’s production have amounted to a deafening silence since 2018, when Yen confirmed that the film was starting production,Donnie Yenhas indicated thatSleeping Dogsmay just be his next project. In a post made on the Chinese social media network Weibo, Yen alluded to the fact that he was preparing for his next big role and even included a hashtag referencing “sleepingdog,” as pointed out by Asia market industry analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter.
IfSleeping Dogs, whichseems to be a passion project for the actor, truly is Donnie Yen’s next big film, it will surely be officially announced soon, as all of the currently announced staff attached to the project all operate mainly in English-language film productions.
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Editionis out now on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
