#Horror Master Timo Tjahjanto Set To Direct Under Siege Reboot For HBO Max

Tjahjanto is a celebrated name in genre circles for the balls-to-the-wall ultraviolence his work relishes, from the “V/H/S/2” segment “Safe Haven” (which remains the greatest segment of the entire franchise) to 2018’s “The Night Comes For Us,” an assassin free-for-all featuring some folks from Gareth Evans’ “The Raid” and a whole lot of incredible fight sequences. If you haven’t seen “The Night Comes For Us,” you really should get on that; its fights have some of the most technically fascinating camera work and fight choreography in years, and energy only matched that year by Leigh Whannell’s sci-fi-action banger, “Upgrade.” 

Next up for Tjahjanto is the “Train to Busan” remake, “Last Train to New York,” which will have him working with James Wan’s Atomic Monster production label.

I’m looking particularly forward to the casting process and learning who our villains are. The baddies of the original are played deliriously by Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey, so the bar is high. If nothing else, this is the chance to right the wrong of underwritten tagalong Jordan Tate (played by Erika Eleniak, a Playboy playmate like her character). Maybe she’ll be a kickboxer this time around.