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Sleeping Dogs is a highly underrated open-world GTA-like which released back in 2012 to overall solid reviews. In the years since, opinions on the title have only risen with time, owing to the game’s unique Hong Kong setting and fun melee-focused combat. While a sequel will likely never come to be, a film adaptation has been in the works for almost a decade in one form or another. Following a bout of silence, we have now gotten a positive update.
Sleeping Dogs publisher Square Enix has been trying to get a film adaptation made for years now, with the project originally said to be starring Donnie Yen. Announced back in 2017, we would see very little in the way of updates – up until early 2025 when it was confirmed that Yen was no longer attached to the project.
Fortunately, work on the project picked back up quite quickly, with Marvel’s Shang Chi actor Simu Liu confirming his involvement in the Sleeping Dogs adaptation.
Since then, work seemed to be progressing smoothly, with the film’s first draft script having been completed as of October 2025. Additionally, Director Timo Tjahjanto was announced to have joined the project in December of last year.
While we have not gotten any further updates since, Simu Liu recently took to Twitter to respond to one fan who wrote “replaying an all time favourite [Sleeping Dogs], @SimuLiu please do this game justice” stating: “hope to post some really positive updates soon. Stay tuned.”
So while we have not gotten any new concrete information, this latest post does lend some degree of confidence to the fact that Sleeping Dogs will one day turn into a hopefully-successful adaptation. We will have to wait and see whether Liu’s other dream – that being “a sequel game for everyone” also one day comes to fruition.
KitGuru says: What do you think of Sleeping Dogs? Is it the best non-GTA GTA-like? Would you like to see a sequel made, even though the original studio no longer exists? Let us know down below.
