Ke Huy Quan Starring in ‘With Love’

Jonathan Eusebio, an experienced 2nd unit director and stunt coordinator, is making his directorial debut with the movie, which is produced by David Leitch.

Ke Huy Quan poses backstage with the Oscar® for Actor in a Supporting Role during the live ABC telecast of the 95th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 12, 2023.

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Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan is leading new action pic ‘With Love’.
Jonathan Eusebio is making his directorial debut with the movie.
It hails from David Leitch and Kelly McCormick’s 87North company.

Having sealed his big comeback with an Oscar last year thanks to ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’, Ke Huy Quan has certainly been making moves since then.

He’s showed up in the likes of Marvel projects (‘Loki’s second season) and fellow Disney+ series ‘American Born Chinese’ and has more movies on the way. He’s now taking the leap into an even more action-orientated sphere as he’s set to star in Universal action movie ‘With Love’.

What’s the story of ‘With Love’?

Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang in A24's 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'

So far, according to Deadline, the studio has not released any plot details for the new movie, though we do know that Luke Passmore (‘Archenemy’) is writing the latest draft of the script, following work by Josh Stoddard (‘Warrior’) & Matthew Murray.

Given the title, are we to speculate that this could be a riff on Bond movies (as in ‘From Russia With Love’)? Or could it be a blend of rom-com and kick-ass action?

Whatever it turns out to be, this could do for Quan what ‘Nobody’ did for Bob Odenkirk. And he’s already got a leg up since Quan has years of experience as a stunt choreographer.

Who is making ‘With Love’?

(L to R) Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brad Pitt in Sony Pictures' 'Bullet Train.'

The new movie comes from 87North, the production company run by ‘Bullet Train’ director David Leitch and wife/producing partner Kelly McCormick. The pair, who have plenty of action filmmaking experience between them (Leitch co-directed ‘John Wick' and has also worked on the likes of ‘Atomic Blonde’ and ‘Deadpool 2’, while producing ‘Nobody’, ‘Violent Night’ and more), are shepherding this one as producers.

The ‘Violent Night’ connections continue via the director, Jonathan Eusebio, who has been a colleague of Leitch and McCormick for years. His resume includes stunt coordination or 2nd unit directing experience on movies including the aforementioned Santa thriller plus ‘Deadpool 2’, ‘Black Panther’, ‘Birds of Prey’, and Leitch’s upcoming ‘The Fall Guy’. ‘With Love’ will mark his directorial debut.

He’s just the latest stunt expert to graduate to directing from working with Leitch –– previous examples have included Sam Hargrave, who has since made both the ‘Extraction’ movies for Netflix.

The future for Ke Huy Quan

Ke Huy Quan as O.B. in Marvel Studios' 'Loki,' Season 2, exclusively on Disney+.

‘With Love’ is at an early stage and doesn’t have a release date set yet, but we will see Quan in the Russo Brothers’ ‘The Electric State’, which should arrive via Netflix this year. And before that, we’ll hear him as the character Han in ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’, due to be released on March 8th.