Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan is back in leading man mode – this time in a major studio film.

Quan, who scored best actor honors at the 2022 Academy Awards for his role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, plays mild-mannered real estate agent with a secret Marvin Gable in Love Hurts, which was produced by 87North, the studio behind Nobody and Violent Night.

As you’d expect with a film from that studio, Love Hurts is stuffed with martial arts violence (and some standard-issue violence) in addition to comic set pieces. Gable plays one of Milwaukee’s best realtors (he won an award!), but he also hides a dark secret: he used to be a hitman.

In addition to Quan, Love Hurts stars Sean Astin as Cliff, Marvin’s boss, reuniting the two former Goonies. Quan told Entertainment Weekly that he reached out to Astin after the movie’s producers suggested him as a candidate for the role of Cliff. While Astin didn’t respond directly to Quan, he did say yes when the producers offered him the role.

The movie also stars Marshawn Lynch as another hitman gunning for Marvin. In the trailer (above), he and Quan have it out in one of Marvin’s show homes. Lynch’s character pistol-whips Marvin while getting kicked between the legs, face-planting on the kitchen floor, and effectively getting disarmed when Marvin uses a wooden peg to pin his pistol to the railing of the deck.

“This little four-foot, nothing-ass, Spider-Monkey ninja got hops!” says Lynch.

Rounding out the cast are Ariana DeBose as Rose, a former criminal associate of Marvin’s who he left behind when he decided to get out of the murder for hire business. DeBose, an Oscar-winner herself, was the one who announced Quan’s win at the Oscar ceremony, and the two decided they wanted to work together.

Daniel Wu, Mustafa Shakir, Leo Tipton, Rhys Darby and Cam Gigandet also star. Jonathan Eusebio, a stuntman and stunt coordinator, directs from a script by Matthew Murray, Josh Stoddard and Luke Passmore. This is Eusebio’s directorial debut; he previously served as second unit director on Violent Night and Birds of Prey.

Love Hurts is in theaters on February 7th, 2025.