Open-world GTA-like game Sleeping Dogs is one step closer to the big screen as Shang-Chi’s Simu Liu says the movie’s landed a director

Square Enix’s oft-forgotten cult game Sleeping Dogs is one step closer to being revived on the big screen, according to star Simu Liu, who’s confirmed a director for the in-development flick.

For those out of the loop, 2012’s Sleeping Dogs was a gorgeous crime thriller riffing on GTA, this time set in Hong Kong, which released to boatloads of praise but not a lot of sales, kneecapping any chance it had for a sequel. Shang-Chi and Kim’s Convenience actor Simu Liu has publicly been trying to get a Sleeping Dogs movie adaptation off the ground in recent years, though.

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