Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for the action romantic comedy Love Hurts. The film stars Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan who appears as a nobody other than a realtor, but has a dark secret that can’t be kept hidden.
Quan is no stranger to the action genre given that he’s appeared in films like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and even served as a stunt coordinator on the X-Men films. However, he had a reinassance moment when he played Waymond Wang, Alpha-Waymond, and other Waymonds in Everything Everywhere All At Once. His performance as all of those characters and in the respective action sequences was so impressive that it earned him an Academy Award.
Now that Quan is back, he has more roles offered to him and has a chance to lead in a film opposite Ariana DeBose, who also is an Academy Award winner.
“Love Hurts” marks the first time that 87North, a production company known for their killer stunt work and fight choergraphy, has taken on the rom-com genre. Their previous works included the tragic revenge thriller “John Wick,” the domesticated family actioner “Nobody,” and the holiday comedy “Violent Night.”
“Love Hurts” features a killer soundtrack and impressive and diverse cast that includes former NFL running back and Super Bowl champion Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch (“Bottoms,” “80 for Brady”), Mustafa Shakir (“Emancipation,” “Luke Cage”), Lio Tipton (“Crazy, Stupid, Love.”, “Lucy”), Rhys Darby (“Jumanji: The Next Level,” “Yes Man”), André Eriksen (“Violent Night,” “The Trip”) and Sean Astin (“The Lord of the Rings trilogy,” “Perry Mason”).
Produced by 87North’s Kelly McCormick and David Leitch, “Love Hurts” is written by Matthew Murray (“Sheltered,” “CloudStreet: Soaring the American West”) & Josh Stoddard (“Warrior,” “Kaleidoscope”) and Luke Passmore (“Archenemy,” “Slaughterhouse Rulez”). Guy Danella (“Violent Night”) is also producing. The executive producer is Ben Ormand.
Making his feature film directing debut on Love Hurts is acclaimed veteran stunt coordinator and fight coordinator JoJo Eusebio, whose credits include some of the greatest action films of the past decade including “Black Panther,” “The Avengers,” the “John Wick” films, “The Matrix Resurrections,” “Violent Night,” “The Fall Guy” and “Deadpool 2.” Eusebio also served as the second-unit director on “Deadpool 2,” “Violent Night” and “Birds of Prey.”
Here’s the official plot synopsis for “Love Hurts:”
Quan stars as Marvin Gable, a realtor working the Milwaukee suburbs, where ‘For Sale’ signs bloom. Gable receives a crimson envelope from Rose (Oscar® winner Ariana DeBose; West Side Story, Argylle), a former partner-in-crime that he had left for dead. She’s not happy
Now, Marvin is thrust back into a world of ruthless hitmen, filled with double-crosses and open houses turned into deadly warzones. With his brother Knuckles (Daniel Wu; Tomb Raider, Warcraft), a volatile crime lord, hunting him, Marvin must confront the choices that haunt him and the history he never truly buried.
