New movie with Oscar winners Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBose set in Milwaukee: What we know

Two Oscar winners are coming to Milwaukee — by way of Canada, apparently.

Ke Huy Quan, who won an Academy Award for best supporting actor for 2022’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” plays a suburban Milwaukee real estate agent whose life is turned upside down when a person from his past pulls him back into his old life in “Love Hurts.”

Entertainment Weekly posted exclusive first-look photos from and plot details for the action movie Monday.

Here’s what we know about the movie so far.

When is ‘Love Hurts’ showing in theaters?

“Love Hurts,” which previously had been titled “With Love,” opens nationwide Feb. 7.

What’s the movie about?

As shown in the movie’s trailer released Tuesday, Quan is a successful real estate agent who accentuates the positive in his life — that is, until a mysterious envelope shows up in his life, linking him back to a life of violence and mayhem he thought he had left behind. When killers from that past arrive, looking for his former partner in crime, he has to fight for his life (in between showing listings to prospective homebuyers).

Who else stars in the movie?

Ariana DeBose, who won an Oscar for her vibrant performance as Anita in 2021’s “West Side Story,” plays the woman from Quan’s past, according to EW.

The “Love Hurts” cast also includes former NFL star Marshawn Lynch, Lio Tipton, Daniel Wu and Sean Astin. Astin and Quan co-starred in another movie 40 years ago: “The Goonies.”

It’s the first lead role for Quan, who did a lot of stunt work in Hong Kong and the United States in the years between “The Goonies” and his career resurgence following “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

Stunt coordinator Jonathan Eusebio, whose résumé includes all three “John Wick” movies, “The Fall Guy” and a slew of Marvel movies, is making his feature-film directorial debut.

Was ‘Love Hurts’ shot in Wisconsin?

Although the movie, from Universal Pictures, is set in a Milwaukee suburb, it reportedly was filmed earlier this year in Winnipeg, Manitoba. No word yet on whether there were any scenes or establishing shots filmed in the Milwaukee area. (It wouldn’t be the first time a movie was nominally set in Milwaukee but basically filmed elsewhere; we’re looking at you, “Bridesmaids.”)

Does the movie have any other Wisconsin connections?

“Love Hurts” has another Wisconsin link. One of the movie’s producers is David Leitch, the Kohler native who graduated from stunt and stunt coordinator work to producer-director (“The Fall Guy,” “Bullet Train,” “Deadpool 2,” “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw,” “Atomic Blonde”).