Luke Evans has established a career with plenty of action roles. In Weekend in Taipei, the film has all the elements of action with speeding cars, hand-to-hand fights, and interesting characters—it was just not hard to board this project.

The film also stars Gwei Lun-mei (Girlfriend Boyfriend, Black Coal, Thin Ice), Sung Kang (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Bullet to the Head), and Wyatt Yang. George Huang (American Heiress, How to Make a Monster) directed the film from the screenplay written by Luc Besson and Huang.

Here is the official synopsis:

On a deep undercover assignment in Taipei, DEA agent John Lawlor (Luke Evans) was doing everything right…until he fell in love with his informant, beautiful Josephine “Joey” Kwang (Gwei Lun-mei), one of the Asian underworld’s best transport drivers. Compromised and cover blown, John was forced to flee. Now, years later, John is back in Taipei for the weekend. But is he here to finish the job? Or to win back Joey’s love?

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LRM Online’s Gig Patta chatted with actor Luke Evans on the project, his approach on action differently with other films, the cast, and filming in Taiwan.

Luke Evans began his career on stage at the London’s West End productions of Rent, Miss Saigon, and Pia. In 2010, he broke through in the Clash of the Titans remake and followed with many more action films like Immortals, The Raven, and the re-imagined The Three Musketeers. In 2013, he starred as the villain Owen Shaw in Fast & Furious 6 and played the heroic Bard the Bowman in the Peter Jackson three-film prequel of The Hobbit. He stretched his singing abilities in the Disney live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast in 2017 and played the Coachman in another Disney live-action remake of Pinocchio. His other credits included the biography Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, miniseries The Pembrokeshire Murders, and the Hulu series Nine Perfect Strangers.

Weekend in Taipei is in theaters on Friday, November 8.

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Source: LRM Online Exclusive, Ketchup Entertainment