Rain being wooed by Hollywood.

Which project will he choose to do next? Rain spoke on this subject a while back, right around the time Ninja Assassin began to premiere in November 2009, but suddenly Asian news organizations are bringing it up again now, so let’s talk.

» This nice article on AsianDM.blogspot, from that time, mentions that the 170 million dollar fantasy movie that Rain could possibly sign on for (you know, the one that he said involved a band of bodyguards trying to get their king to safety) just might be a Hollywood adaptation of the popular game “World of Warcraft.” Hmm… maybe that’s why Rain was trotting around on that horse in those pictures from the Alps—practice. I’ve never seen him on a horse before that. And any fantasy buff knows that that is a heroic staple in every epic fantasy known to man: sword, cape, horse.

Rain has also said around the Internet that he really wants to do a romantic television drama and is looking at scripts. (I imagine so, after the utter torture of preparing for and playing the tragic character of Raizo!) And he has mentioned working on his mysterious English album a time or two, so honestly, there is no telling just which of these things he will end up springing on us. It wouldn’t surprise me if he hit us with ALL THREE.

One thing I’m almost positive Rain won’t be doing this year is martial arts film Awaken The Dragon, the proposed reimagining of Enter The Dragon. Writer/director Kurt Sutter had to step away from the project in March 2009, » as the man himself explained in this blog post, and in » this blog post, and Rain actually » backs up what Sutter said HERE. It’s a red light, not going to go forward. So it is beyond me why a bunch of news journalists and bloggers started reporting in August 2009 that the movie was definitely being released in 2010, with Rain in it. I have not seen Dragon anywhere on Warner Bros.’ list of planned movie releases. It was Sutter’s original idea, and he was also going to write the script, so unless Warner finds someone else to write the thing, it ain’t happening. Maybe next year.

If it were up to you, which project would you have Rain do next?