The Legend of Famen Temple (2017) - New Tsui Hark

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Plot Summary for The Legend of Famen Temple on imdb - http://m.imdb.com/title/tt5991586/plotsummary?ref_=m_tt_ov_pl

"In the FamenTemple in the Tang Dynasty, The stupa, where Buddha's relic is enshrined catches fire and flying Apsaras appears on top of it.  Duan Chengshi and his cousin witnesses all the oddities and things get more and more complicated as he tries to solve the mystery."  Cast includes Xun Zhou, Zitao Huang, and Kun Chen.  Release date sometime in 2017. 

Wikipedia has an entry on FamenTemple - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famen_Temple - 

From http://arts.cultural-china.com/en/41Arts1534.html

"In 1987, a team of Chinese archeologists discovered the amazing underground palace often talked about in legends while cleaning the pagoda ruins at Famen Temple in Xi'an. They also discovered the real finger bones of Sakyamuni and thousands of imperial treasures of the Tang Dynasty that had been in secret storage in the glistening underground palace for thousands of years."

Update - It now looks like The Legend of Famen Temple will be released in 2019.

Teaser poster - 

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Could be interesting. I think his output has been up and down over the last few years. This could go either way. Wont know until the trailer hits. Probably just a bunch of bad CGI. 

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Forget a 2017 release date.  Tsui Hark won't even start filming this until November 2017, according to the latest at

https://twitter.com/AsianFilmStrike

Fantasy poster for the movie at