When asked about his career in 2014, Wong told "The Independent", "To be honest with you, I feel I’m only halfway done." In November 2016, he was announced as taking over an upcoming film about the murder of Maurizio Gucci from previous director Ridley Scott, but commented in October 2017 that he was no longer involved in the project. In September 2017, Amazon Video issued a straight-to-series order for "Tong Wars", a television drama to be directed by Wong. It focuses on the gang wars that occurred in nineteenth-century San Francisco, they later dropped the series. Regarding his next film, the Asian media has reported that it will be titled "Blossoms" and based on a book by Jin Yucheng, which focuses on numerous characters in Shanghai from the 1960s to the 2000s, it is also slated to become a web series for Tencent in which he produces.