Variety report that singer/actor Wang Lee Hom is set to star in Magic Storm Entertainment’s
Annihilator, an adaptation of Stan Lee's comic series about a young prisoner who is given a second chance as an international superhero and returns home to mete out justice. The film is a co-production between Magic Storm Entertainment, who partners with Lee’s Pow Entertainment banner and the Chinese state-run National Film Capital.
The Bourne Legacy scribe Dan Gilroy is penning the script. New York born Leehom became a massive Chinese music star after entering a competition in Taiwan, and numbers more than 35 million followers on Chinese social media network Weibo. He has appeared in films including
Lust, Caution and
Love in Disguise which he also directed. Lee Hom is currently filming Michael Mann's untitled untitled cyber-terrorism flick alongside
Thor's Chris Hemsworth.
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