Journey to China: The Mystery of Iron Mask (Formerly Viy 2) (2016) Jackie Chan & Arnie

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[whitesnake]

IMDB lists this as Viy 2: Journey to China, directed by Oleg Stepchenko, who also directed Forbidden Kingdom (aka Viy).  Cast includes Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rutger Hauer, Charles Dance (Viy, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Little Drummer Girl TV series), Jason Flemyng (Viy, Solomon Kane), some Russians, and even some Thai actors.  IMDB plot summary:  "The English traveller Jonathan Green receives from Peter the Great an order to map the Russian Far East.  Once again he sets out for a long journey full of incredible adventures that will eventually lead him to China.  The cartographer will unexpectedly face a lot of breathtaking discoveries, encounter bizarre creatures, meet with Chinese Princesses, and confront deadly martial arts masters, and even the king of all dragons, the Dragon King.  What could be more dangerous than meeting eye-to-eye with Viy, except doing it again?  What would be stronger this time, a staunch skepticism of the scientist or the old black magic that has seized power of Eastern lands?"  From Wikipedia - "Members of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team would be helping out in choreographing the fights for the film...  The release of the movie in... Russia... was postponed to February 7, 2019, due to the passage of censorship in China.  Release in China planned on January 27, 2019."  Latest trailer I can find - 

 

Edited July 24, 2019 by whitesnake

[reason108]

Looks rather generic sadly. Hope the movie is better than the trailer.

[whitesnake]

The latest title for the movie is The Mystery of the Dragon Seal: Journey to China and it is finally getting a theatrical release date in Russia and China - August 16, 2019.  There is no release date announced for North America yet.  More info at https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jackie-chan-arnold-schwarzenegger-film-gets-china-russia-release-1226561  

Rutger Hauer played an Ambassador in this.  

Edited July 24, 2019 by whitesnake

[whitesnake]

Movie Review of The Mystery of Dragon Seal at https://asianfilmstrike.com/2019/10/08/the-mystery-of-dragon-seal-aka-viy-2-aka-journey-to-china-the-mystery-of-iron-mask-2019-review/ 

"Who could have imagined that two of the most iconic movie stars in the world, Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, would one day share the screen not in a Hollywood buddy movie, but in a Russian-Chinese fantasy swashbuckling adventure vaguely derived from Nikolai Gogol, in which Arnie would play a British warden, and the two would have a swordfight?... The Mystery of Dragon Seal is obviously modeled on the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise: same merging of fantasy with swashbuckling tropes, same structure of parallel adventures all joining in one place for a grand finale, same multi-cultural cast with a fake British anchoring... Long Story Short: Come for Jackie and Arnie, stay for Jacie and Arnie.  The rest has some inspired production design and action, but is derivative, abstruse and occasionally cheap."

[SamSeed]

Seen a few reviews for this recently. They are.... less than glowing to put it lightly. Has anyone seen it? All I want to see really are the fight sequences of Jackie and Arnie, not fussed about the rest.

[OpiumKungFuCracker]

Just saw the trailer, I'll give it a go since Jackie and Arnold is in it. 

[whitesnake]

This is getting a Blu-ray release in the UK on June 8 (as The Iron Mask), in France on July 8 (as The Mystery of the Dragon Seal), in Australia on July 1 (as Journey to China: The Mystery of the Iron Mask), and in Russia on June 15 (as Viy 2: The Mystery of Dragon Seal).  Still waiting here in the US... It's a fantasy film with Arnie and Jackie, so I want to see it, no matter how bad it may be. 

[whitesnake]

From https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Iron-Mask-Blu-ray/277837/ 

Lionsgate is releasing the Blu-ray and DVD for Iron Mask in the U.S. on November 17, 2020.  Here's the official Lionsgate trailer -

 

[AlbertV]

Oh and in an interesting coincidence, Dollar Tree here is having a DVD sale and I went and found a movie called Forbidden Empire and its none other than the original Viy.