Rick Yune wins "Ninja" role

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Rick Yune, whose big-screen credits includes roles in "Die Another Day" and "The Fast and the Furious," has been cast as the antagonist in the action film "Ninja Assassin."

Also boarding the Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures production are Naomie Harris, in the female lead role, and Ben Miles.

The Wachowski brothers are producing the martial arts extravaganza, with James McTeigue ("V for Vendetta") directing.

The feature stars Korean actor-singer Rain, who also appears in the Wachowskis' "Speed Racer," as a man brought up in an orphanage that functions as a ninja farm. The man turns his back on his tradition to make his way in the modern world, which brings him into conflict with a ninja (Yune) from the clan.

"Not to give too much away, (but) my character stays within what he was brought up with, and they go up against each other," said Yune, who next appears on the big screen in "The Fifth Commandment," which he also wrote. "I'm not a heavy. The characters are ninjas, they are assassins, and there's this mix of morality the Wachowskis are exploring."

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter