Legendary action director John Woo is now directing a musical starring the Sparks Brothers

John Woothe director of action films like Boiled hard, Face/Off, The killer, Mission: Impossible IIAND Silent nightis doing something very different with his next film project.

The director is ready to make a musical with Sparks, a cult pop duo also known as Ron AND Russel Maelbehind songs like “This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us.”

Woo made the announcement during an interview with Empire, saying, “My next project is actually a semi-musical. I’m working with the Sparks Brothers, who wrote the script and the songs—we’re just starting to work on some changes to the script.”

The title of the film could end up being X Crocioneand is described by Focus Features as an “epic musical.” Woo has always wanted to make a musical and came close in the 1990s with an adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. That was supposed to be a big-budget musical starring John Travolta.

Woo goes on to say that his collaboration with Sparks will require a change from his usual production style, and jokes, “It will be my first film where I don’t need to hire a stuntman.”

The band Sparks’ work was previously chronicled in Edgar Wright’s documentary The Sparks Brotherswhile they were collaborating with Leo Carax on the musical ‘rock opera’ Annette.

Woo has other projects in the works and previews that one of them is a western: “I have a western project; a wonderful script to Brian Helgeland. It has a lot of romance, a lot of emotion and exciting action.”

Sparks recently shared a photo with Woo on X with the hashtag ‘#xcrucior.’ What do you think about Woo directing a musical with the Sparks Brothers?