Flying Fists Of The Future - Science Fiction & Martial Arts Movies

[lilmanjs]

Does the South Korean movie Natural City count? I haven't pulled it out for a watch in a while, but I remember there being a few fight scenes in it.

[whitesnake]

This trailer (with no English subs) just showed up on HK Cinema Youtube channel.  The Tutor 2 looks bizarre, with some kind of futuristic authoritarian dictatorship, men and women with guns, swords, wearing steampunk outfits.  Whether the martial arts is any good, it's hard to tell, from the short clips of fighting in the trailer, but it looks kind of fun.  The movie opens in China October 21, 2018.  The only other reference to this movie that I can find online is on a Russian Twitter account, in Cyrillic.  Trailer - has disappeared.  Here's one from The Tutor #1 -  No wonder some of the trailers I've posted on this topic have  just disappeared.  The HK Cinema Channel has disappeared from Youtube again (before November 14, 2019).  HK Cinema Channel just re-appeared on Youtube (4 December 2019).  So I've added The Tutor 2 trailer (again) - 

 

 

 

Edited December 4, 2019 by whitesnake

[DragonClaws]

22 minutes ago, whitesnake said:

he Tutor 2 looks bizarre, with some kind of futuristic authoritarian dictatorship, men and women with guns, swords, wearing steampunk outfits.

 

Boy did Mad Max Fury Road really put the Steam Punk on the map, you can see its influence on a lot of media.

[whitesnake]

Here's the latest trailer for Dream Breaker, the futuristic Chinese movie with some martial arts.  It opens in China on November 9, 2018.  There's an article about Dream Breaker at https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/first-look-chinese-director-han-yan-goes-cyber-punk-dream-breaker-image-987576  That was a while back, when they thought Dream Breaker would be released a year ago.  Updated at http://cityonfire.com/new-for-han-yans-cyber-punk-actioner-dreambreaker-dream-breaker-trailer/   Replacement trailer -  That's gone, so here's a second replacement trailer - 

 

Edited June 8, 2019 by whitesnake

[whitesnake]

After Enthiran (2010), a Tamil sci-fi film from India, star Rajinikanth returns in the sequel, 2.0 (or Enthiran 2.0), as both Dr. Vaseegaran and his robot Chitti, "now upgraded and rebooted to take on a cybervillain using smartphone technology to conquer earth.  This is definitely a bare-handed allegory on mankind's self-destructive addiction to technology if ever, cranked up to fricking eleven."  The movie opens in India on November 29, 2018. 

News from https://filmcombatsyndicate.com/2-0-your-smartphones-are-out-to-kill-you-and-only-s-s-rajinikanth-can-stop-them-in-the-official-trailer/   The Trailer hints at some fights, with metal fists. 

[whitesnake]

Dream Breaker, the futuristic Chinese movie with some martial arts, gets a movie review at https://asianfilmstrike.com/2018/11/14/dream-breaker-2018-review/  Excerpts - "While investigating the mysterious disappearance fifteen years before of her father (Tong Dawei), a pioneer in virtual reality, Jiang Han (Chen Duling) finds herself trapped in Souldream, an illegal and dangerous VR game he designed, where players can fight one another for points which allow them to indulge their desires.  There, she's help by Nan Ji (Wong Weilong), an expert player... Dream Breaker benefited from the artistic input of visionary, subversive Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono, though it only shows in a few visions of kooky, gaudy chaos.  Elsewhere, the film evokes the cyberpunk of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (Souldream is a teeming, rain-soaked, neon-lit, hologram-adorned metropolis), while the plot borrows wholesale from Joseph Zosinski's Tron: Legacy... similarities with Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One are legion too, but Dream Breaker was written and shot before the release of that film.  Its derivativeness aside, Han Yan's film is frustratingly vague as to the rules of its universe and contradicts itself too often to really engage... There's also plodding attempts at humour and swirling fights that are often over-edited... More effective are Gai Yuexi as an evil sword-wielding assassin with ill-defined purposes... Long Story Short:  Despite a handful of clever narrative and visual ideas, Dream Breaker is a derivative mess..."

[DragonClaws]

 

I really appreciate you keeping this thread up-dated @whitesnake, you have covered a lot of films, that have passed by orsimply over-looked.

 

Here's another title to add to the list, oce it's completed that is. Thanks to the team over at CityOnFire.Com, for the head's up on this title, with the hard working, John Paul-Ly, set to star.

For more detials, click on the link below, thank you.

Link- http://cityonfire.com/jailbreak-star-jean-paul-ly-has-a-rift-to-deal-with/

 

 

[whitesnake]

Someone (Chinese government?) cracked down on all the Chinese movie trailers on the Youtube HK Cinema Channel.  They've disappeared from Youtube and from this thread.  HK Cinema is now adding Chinese movie clips to its channel, but nothing applicable (scifi with martial arts) has shown up so far.  Update - In this thread I've just replaced what Chinese trailers I could find from other sites.  No telling how long they'll be available.  Cityonfire.com mentioned a new movie, Invincible, a "forthcoming actioner from filmmaker Daniel Zirilli", with Johnny Strong (Sinners and Saints) and Marko Zaror (Redeemer).  Info from http://cityonfire.com/marko-zaror-and-johnny-strong-are-invincible/  and https://filmcombatsyndicate.com/invincible-casts-marko-zaror-johnny-strong/  The IMDB plot description makes it sound like a scifi martial arts film - "Colonel John Taylor enlists billionaire inventor Leor Teska to fund a secret black site, testing Teska's new nano technology for military applications, developed by scientists.  When [a runaway experimental supersoldier], Brock Cortez [played by Marko Zaror] escapes, Teska's head of security, Cam Devore [Johnny Strong] is given the dangerous task of tracking him down."   The movie is in post-production.  Theatrical poster - 

Edited December 21, 2018 by whitesnake

[whitesnake]

The latest on RIFT - "Watch the Proof-Of-Concept Teaser for Haz Dulull's Inspired Martial Arts Sci-Fi Feature" at https://filmcombatsyndicate.com/rift-watch-the-proof-of-concept-teaser-for-haz-dululls-inspired-martial-arts-sci-fi-feature/  The concept teaser is a different one, a sci-fi short film.  "Dulull and his team now aim to being shooting as early as 2020."   Teaser here -

 

 New conceptual poster - 

[DragonClaws]

 

Here's anohter one title for the list @whitesnake, a list I really need to up-date.

 

 

 

[whitesnake]

I've really been looking for another movie to list here, but it's hard with the loss of the Chinese movie trailers channel.  Here's an item I found on cityonfire.com, posted on Feb 19, 2019. - Nemesis 5: The New Model is a new sci-fi actioner from Dustin Ferguson and Albert Pyun.  "It is the year 2077 and a terrorist organization now dominates the Earth.  The fate of humankind now rests in the hands of 'The New Model' (Schuylar Craig).  Trained under the wing of Alex Sinclair (Su Price of Nemesis 2 - 4), she must form an army to take down the regime and regain control."  Below are the trailer and a "Nemesis 5 - Official 5 Minute Clip (2018)" that reveals how truly awful the Nemesis 5 movie is.    

 

 

 

[DragonClaws]

On 2/28/2019 at 5:41 PM, whitesnake said:

I've really been looking for another movie to list here, but it's hard with the loss of the Chinese movie trailers channel. 

 

Hat's off to you @whitesnake, for keeping this thread up-dated, I'll be up-dating the list in the first post soon.

[whitesnake]

The HKCinema Channel is back up on Youtube.  The movie Desire Game, getting a Chinese release on April 12, 2019, isn't a martial arts movie, but it has sci-fi.  The trailer shows some fighting and weaponry.   

 

Edited September 9, 2019 by whitesnake

[whitesnake]

Iron Girl: Final Wars (2019?) is third in a sci-fi action movie series from Japan.  The first two movies were Iron Girl (2012) and Iron Girl: Ultimate Weapon (2015).  Masatoshi Nagamine wrote the screenplay for all three movies and directed the first one.  Kenichi Fujiwara directed the second movie and Iron Girl: Final Wars as well.  Kirara Asuka stars in all three movies as Iron Girl.   

Synopsis of Iron Girl: Final Wars - "In 20XX, Japan is full of Cyborgs.  Human developed Artificial Intelligence JUDA to protect the Earth.  Everything was moving smoothly until the JUDA started to attack humans.  The reason of the attack was because humans were planning a nuclear war.  JUDA considers that the nuclear war will destroy the Earth, and humans who plan on doing so is Earth's true enemy.  The fight between Human and Cyborgs flattened Japan.  Military company '4th Diamond' took advantage and started developing the 'Supermassive Destructive Weapon'.  Right before this secret weapon was completed, the weapon was stolen from the terrorist organization 'Alqaloid'.  If the weapon is completed, there would be a final war between the allied forces.  Vigilante 'Resistance' sensed the danger and stood up.  Meanwhile, some people were turned into a Murder Weapon after their death.  Those cyborgs had lost all their memories.  Chris (Kirara Asuka) was one of them... In order to get back her lost memory, she had to keep  fighting.  For revenge the fiercest Cyborg Diana (Saki Akai) tries to kill Chris.  Resistance troop Joe (Takaya Aoyagi) struggles to save the two... One day Chris has a fateful meeting with mysterious girl Sara (Jun Amaki).  Even before their actual meeting, they both had felt something for each other.  However, that mysterious girl Sara was the final weapon..."  (At least it's an improvement over Nemesis 5.)   Article at - https://filmcombatsyndicate.com/iron-girl-final-wars-dont-miss-the-latest-trailer-for-kirara-asukas-cult-sci-fi-action-threequel/ 

Update: Iron Girl: Final Wars will be released on Blu-ray from Switchblade Pictures on April 6, 2021 - https://www.rightstufanime.com/Iron-Girl-Final-Wars-Blu-ray

Trailer - 

 

Edited February 14, 2021 by whitesnake

[ShaOW!linDude]

On 12/21/2018 at 10:27 AM, whitesnake said:

Someone (Chinese government?) cracked down on all the Chinese movie trailers on the Youtube HK Cinema Channel.  They've disappeared from Youtube and from this thread.  HK Cinema is now adding Chinese movie clips to its channel, but nothing applicable (scifi with martial arts) has shown up so far.  Update - In this thread I've just replaced what Chinese trailers I could find from other sites.  No telling how long they'll be available.  Cityonfire.com mentioned a new movie, Invincible, a "forthcoming actioner from filmmaker Daniel Zirilli", with Johnny Strong (Sinners and Saints) and Marko Zaror (Redeemer).  Info from http://cityonfire.com/marko-zaror-and-johnny-strong-are-invincible/  and https://filmcombatsyndicate.com/invincible-casts-marko-zaror-johnny-strong/  The IMDB plot description makes it sound like a scifi martial arts film - "Colonel John Taylor enlists billionaire inventor Leor Teska to fund a secret black site, testing Teska's new nano technology for military applications, developed by scientists.  When [a runaway experimental supersoldier], Brock Cortez [played by Marko Zaror] escapes, Teska's head of security, Cam Devore [Johnny Strong] is given the dangerous task of tracking him down."   The movie is in post-production.  Theatrical poster - 

Any word as far as a release date for this?

[whitesnake]

On 3/29/2019 at 8:11 AM, ShaOW!linDude said:

Any word as far as a release date for this?

IMDB says that Invincible is in post-production with a release sometime in 2019.  In pre-production is Affinity, directed and produced by Daniel Zirilli, with cast - Peter Stormare, Marko Zaror and Byron Gibson.  "When Bruno Leone, a former Navy SEAL struggling with PTSD, rescues a mysterious girl, his life will change forever."   

 

Edited September 9, 2019 by whitesnake

[whitesnake]

"Warner Bros Lands Joby Harold Sci-Fi Pitch 'Cloaker' for Safehouse Pictures - Warner Bros has made a preemptive deal for Cloaker, an original action sci-fi pitch to Warner Bros.  Harold, along with Safehouse producing partner Tory Tunnell, is producing, with Safehouse's Matt Schwartz exec producing.  The plot is being kept under wraps but we are told it's in the vein of the Bourne and John Wick franchises with a groundbreaking sci-fi element."   From - https://deadline.com/2019/04/joby-harold-cloaker-warner-bros-safehouse-pictures-sci-fi-pitch-deal-tory-tunnell-1202586162/ 

Edited November 14, 2019 by whitesnake

[whitesnake]

From the plot description of the upcoming Jiu-Jitsu, with Frank Grillo, Nicolas Cage, and Tony Jaa -  "Every six years, an ancient order of expert Jiu Jitsu fighters faces a vicious race of alien invaders in a battle for Earth. For thousands of years, the fighters that protect Earth have won...until now. When Jake Barnes, a celebrated war hero and master Jiu Jitsu fighter, is defeated by Brax, the indomitable leader of the invaders, the future of humanity hangs in the balance. Injured and suffering from severe amnesia, Jake is captured by a military squad unequipped to fight the merciless intruders who have descended upon the planet. After a brutal alien attack on the military squad, Jake is rescued by Wylie, Keung and his team of fellow Jiu Jitsu fighters who must help him recover his memory and regain his strength in order to band together and defeat Brax in an epic battle that will once again determine the fate of mankind." - looks like Jiu-Jitsu should be included in this thread as well. 

[DragonClaws]

 

@whitesnake, you have kindly listed so many Sci-Fi movies, feautirng Martial Art's. That I'm not sure if you have already brought this to the forums attention?.

 

 

 

[whitesnake]

Sorry, no, not familiar with The Wheel.  But I did find a couple of trailers on HK Cinema Youtube Channel for a Chinese sci-fi comedy, Ghetto Superman - he has super speed and can fly.  The trailers have no English subtitles.  It's only part comedy, when the hero is testing his new superpowers.  The villains are quite serious.  There are some lab gadgets, a fancy energy gun, a couple of confrontations, including at least one martial arts fight.  Sorry, the trailers have disappeared.  4 Dec 2019 - Ghetto Superman trailer is back on HK Cinema channel - 

 

Edited December 5, 2019 by whitesnake

[whitesnake]

Checking out The Wheel (2019) online -  

https://cinemaaustralia.com.au/2019/02/14/trailer-of-the-day-the-wheel/ - "The Wheel is an Australian sci-fi action movie directed by Dee McLachlan. Filmed primarily at Melbourne’s Dockland Studios, The Wheel takes the director of 2007’s acclaimed movie about human trafficking The Jammed to new territory, turning her attention away from the gritty Melbourne streets to a tech-heavy, militarised dystopian future."  

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6437228/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt  - "Sometime in the near future, paraplegic prison inmate Matt Mills meets "The Board" of Satoshi-Telefair Industries, who thank him for joining the Program. Under pressure and with a promise to make him walk again, Mills agrees to volunteer. He is injected with a synthetic nanomaterial and suffocated, only to wake up with restored use of his legs, yet alone in a steel cell in the first spoke of an experimental apparatus - The Wheel. A series of assailants inflict a multitude of damage to Mills' body and torment his mind, yet the synthetic nanomaterial not only restores his damaged organs, it re-engineers his strength. The experiment might be designed to kill, but Mills is determined to survive - and get back to his daughter before The Board finds her first."  Cast includes David Arquette, Jackson Gallagher (Aussie TV series, Home and Away), Kendal Rae (Out of the Shadows), Belinda McClory (The Doctor Blake Mysteries TV series), and Christopher Kirby (Dora and the Lost City of Gold).

 

[whitesnake]

Two more movies with martial arts fights and sci-fi elements:

Bumblebee - When Bumblebee is fighting the two evil Decepticons at the end of the movie, to keep them from transmitting a message off-world to summon a Decepticon army, the combatants are using robot martial arts.  In the earlier battles, Bumblebee, being so much smaller, keeps getting beat up by the Decepticons.

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw - As with Bumblebee, the cyber-enhanced Brixton (Idris Elba) beats the crap out of Hobbs and Shaw in their earlier encounters, but in the final fight, they figure out how to defeat him by fighting as a martial arts team.

Bloodshot looks like it fits the definition as well, with Vin Diesel playing a nanotech warrior.  He fights some guy who has extra robotic arms, like Doc Ock.  It's gotta be better than Upgrade, a real chore to sit through (watching on HBO).   

Edited January 4, 2020 by whitesnake

[whitesnake]

From the Youtube HK Cinema Channel, here's a trailer for the upcoming (2020) Chinese fantasy action movie, Huo Yun Xie Shen (aka The Beast).  It looks like a sci-fi martial arts movie to me.  Zhong Zhixing directs, and the cast  includes Bruce Leung, Yuen Wah, and Yuen Qiu, all from Kung Fu Hustle.  They are also in a sequel movie, The Beast 2.  chinesemov.com labels The Beast as action, comedy, fantasy, martial arts. The trailer has no English subtitles, so I don't know the plot.

Trailer for Huo Yun Xie Shen, followed by Trailer #2 - 

 

[whitesnake]

Text below is taken from https://action-flix.com/2019/12/20/extraction-point-martial-arts-maestro-franklin-correa-serves-up-fresh-images-from-his-newest-sci-fi-action-thriller-exclusive/  

The movie, Extraction Point, has sci-fi and martial arts. 

Action filmmaker Franklin Correa has a new film, Extraction Point, in pre-production, with an expected release date in September 2020.  "Official Synopsis: After being shot down by the US government, an alien that goes by the name of Nemon (voiced by Farid Jamal Khan) is held captive buy a maniacal scientist Dr.Silva (Joe Bei) to become a guinea pig of experiments. But with the help of his contact Terry (Tara London) who is Dr.Silva’s assistant, she breaks them free before anyting happens and without people to trust she turns to a young kid by the name of Ricky (Anthony Castro) whom she knows from coming to the lab tours every month. Not knowing what to do Ricky turns to his adopted brother Jason (Franklin Correa), an army veteran who does side jobs for his friend Lenny (Micheal Chase) a local loan sharking bookie for help on getting Nemon to his extraction point before the government agents led by Agent Monroe and Kelly (Valentin Montero, Bryan C. King) and their comrades catch up to them but also dealing with a Staten Island loan shark and bookie by the name of Gio Verde’ (Taino Escobar) along with his enforcer Lobo (Kendrick Grey) catch up to them trying to move in on Lenny’s territory. So now Jason must do whatever it takes to help Terry get Nemon to the extraction point by any means necessary."

"As always, Correa is wearing all the hats on this production as he not only stars in it but he also wrote, edited, directed and produced it as well and is one of the hardest working guys in the industry today as he does it his way and his way alone. Correa is a true testament to perseverance and dedication to his craft. His fight sequences always bring a real sense of realism to the screen and fans know what they are in store for when they see his name on the screen." 

Edited January 14, 2020 by whitesnake

[whitesnake]

Kill Mode is a 2019 Dutch movie directed by Thijs Meuwese, with cast Dave Mantel, Julia Batelaan (Molly), Cyriel Guds, and Wes Mutsaars (Prey).  IMDB synopsis: "In a gritty near future, an ex freedom fighter reluctantly jumps back into the fold after discovering a disturbing secret that could bring down the company that owns the world."  More information at https://moviesandmania.com/2019/08/17/kill-mode-movie-film-sci-fi-action-netherlands-2019-overview/  And a movie review with more info at https://www.voicesfromthebalcony.com/2019/12/28/review-kill-mode-2019/  The movie appears to be a sequel to Thijs Meuwese's lower budget 2017 movie, Molly.  The trailer has sword fighting, gun battles, a fight with the combatants in exo-skeletons.  Kill Mode gets a DVD release from RLJ Entertainment on March 17, 2020 - https://videoeta.com/items/220688-kill-mode  

Trailer -