Academy Award-triumphning actor Ke Huy Quan is set to star in the upcoming Lionsgate action thriller Fairytale in New York, an upcoming film from straightforwardor Jalmari Helander.
What is Fairytale in New York about?
The film is set to get place on Christmas Eve in New York City, and will chase the story of an unassuming cab driver. He determines to get one last ride before heading home to commemorate with his estranged son.
However, the cab driver gets into a run-in with a gang of criminals, and will have to embark “on a relentless pursuit to get back his kid’s priceless Christmas gift,” reads the film’s official logline.
Helander is most well-understandn for his historical action thriller Sisu, which freed expansive in 2023 and tageder the story of a Finnish man combat agetst the Nazis. The film was a Midnight Mass pickion at TIFF, and freed to selectimistic appraises, geting more than $14 million at the box office.
Ke Huy Quan is a legfinish in the world of Hollywood, and is best understandn for his childhood roles in films, including take parting Short Round in the Indiana Jones franchise, as well as Data in 1985’s The Goonies. Follotriumphg a 19-year acting hiatus, Quan returned and starred in 2022’s Everyslfinisherg Everywhere All at Once, which catapulted his atgentle to superstardom and geted him an Academy Award.
Recently, Quan starred in the second season of the Disney+/Marvel Studios series Loki, and will also star in the upcoming The Electric State, as well as Zootopia 2 and Love Hurts.
