The film stars Nathalie Emmanuel, Omar Sy, Sam Worthington, Diana Silvers, Eric Cantona, and Saïd Taghmaoui.

Her violent lifestyle has left her with few things to enjoy, including the friendship of an old high-class tailor named Tessier, who provides her with disguises for her jobs, keeping a goldfish, and solving crossword puzzles.

Finn contracts Zee to kill the members of a drug gang from Marseille partying in a local nightclub where a young American singer named Jenn Clark is performing.

In spite of the gangsters receiving texts that Coco has been killed, Zee eliminates them all, but in the carnage Jenn hits the back of her head in a fall, causing her to go blind.

However, his investigations are stymied by his superiors, who fear its impact on their careers, especially since some of the gangsters involved in both crimes were dirty cops working for Gobert.

After Jenn identifies Zee as the killer from the night club, she confesses that she and Coco have stolen Bin Faheem's heroin shipment from its original thieves and taken it to a hideout somewhere in Paris.

After secretly watching Jenn being reunited with her mother, she calls Sey, telling him that she is planning to change her life, and they share a light-hearted goodbye.

In 1992, American filmmaker Walter Hill and David Giler wrote a screenplay for Tri-Star Pictures titled The Killer that was dated 6 April 1992.

[8] Universal Pictures was announced to be developing the film with a script written by Eran Creevy based on drafts by Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken, with additional contributions by Brian Helgeland.

[10] About the decision to flip both the gender and race of the lead, Nyong'o remarked that she "did not see it coming, either", stating that she had received, read and liked the script without having seen the original movie.

[11] However, Woo told Deadline in November 2019 that Nyong'o had left the film due to scheduling conflicts as a result of a script rewrite.

The website's consensus reads: "John Woo recaptures some of his legendary action bravura in this gallic reimagining of his very own The Killer, although the kinetic set pieces don't quite compensate for the overall lack of personality.