Member whitesnake Posted July 10, 2017 Member Share Posted July 10, 2017 This news is on CityonFire and AsianFilmStrike - Twitter. After Heavyweight Assassin, Jeff Lau will start filming Kung Fu Big League, "a martial arts film with Vincent Zhao [as Wong Fei-hung], Andy On [as Ip Man], Dennis To [as Huo Yianjia] and Danny Chan [as Chen Zhen]". CityonFire says - "Kung Fu Big League is essentially 'The Expendables' of kung fu legends and myths." Ip Man (1893 - 1972), Wong Fei-hung (1847 - 1924), Huo Yuanjia (1868 - 1910), Chen Zhen (fictional student of Yuo Yuanjia, so assume mid-1880s to ?). Overlapping period common to all is 1893 - 1910, but Ip Man was born in 1893, so assume common period for all as fighters is around 1908 to 1910. China is still under Manchu rule during that time, so Kung Fu Big League is a costume kung fu movie. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted July 10, 2017 Member Share Posted July 10, 2017 Sounds very promising. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted July 10, 2017 Member Share Posted July 10, 2017 Will be good to see Dennis To in films again. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted July 14, 2017 Member Share Posted July 14, 2017 A 'League' of their own...? Article by Mike Leeder from the action movie website IMPACTonline. Link- http://www.impactonline.co/news/14900-kung-fu-big-league/ Vincent Zhao, image taken from this Chinese blog. link- http://yhzhaow.blog.sohu.com/19072007.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted July 24, 2017 Member Share Posted July 24, 2017 (edited) Ouch!!! Andy On (Tien) suffered a major injury on the set of the film in Ningbo. He seriously tore his Achilles' tendon while doing a running stunt and had to have an operation in Hong Kong. On may return to the set after two weeks of recovery. His fiancee, Jessica C. took a video, which Andy posted on his Instagram Edited July 25, 2017 by AlbertV 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted April 28, 2018 Author Member Share Posted April 28, 2018 It's a comedy, and I found a poster for it at chinesemov.com - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted April 28, 2018 Member Share Posted April 28, 2018 A comedy? Oh fucking hell. I was excited for this one too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted April 28, 2018 Author Member Share Posted April 28, 2018 (edited) Well, it is a martial arts action comedy. It is on the most anticipated martial arts movies in 2018 movie lists for Kung Fu Kingdom and Asian Movie Pulse. Asianmoviepulse.com - "All of this sounds like some surreal Martial Arts mashup movie / dream, and with Jeff Lau (Fist of Fury, Kung Fu Cyborg, A Chinese Odyssey) attached to direct / produce it, it could well end up being some crazy martial arts comedy." Kungfukingdom.com - "A quick Google search will clarify the divergent time periods each character originates from, but Chinese filmmakers have consistently been anything but reluctant to take a little poetic license with their homeland's folk heroes. And in the interest of bringing these legends of martial arts together, we have to agree, facts, schmacts! give us a little fan fiction with 'Kung Fu Big League'." Edited April 28, 2018 by whitesnake 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Fist of the Heavenly Sky Posted April 29, 2018 Member Share Posted April 29, 2018 I'm not surprised that they are playing it safe with the comedy aspect. I'd suspect it would be an absolutely nightmare if they were to attempt any sort of historical realism with all four of the real life individuals. Unless they would go for a route not too dissimilar to that of "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", there would be no point in them trying to pass off the project as serious in tone. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted June 18, 2018 Member Share Posted June 18, 2018 New posters... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted June 18, 2018 Member Share Posted June 18, 2018 There's a live press conference going on for this film now... http://live.mtime.com/?liveId=826 I imagine they're going to play the trailer so we might be able to see it later today or tomorrow. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted June 19, 2018 Member Share Posted June 19, 2018 (edited) Trailer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFJUUG5pZ10 Looks to be VERY heavy on the comedy. Edited June 19, 2018 by Drunken Monk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Frank Bolte Posted June 20, 2018 Member Share Posted June 20, 2018 well, I wouldnt know how to make this a serious movie with that story, having 3 real kung fu masters from different times and a fictional person in one movie... i guess it will be very entertaining though... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member reason108 Posted June 20, 2018 Member Share Posted June 20, 2018 WOW! Though the idea sounded cool, that trailer shot the idea all to hell. Looks like another wasted opportunity. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted June 20, 2018 Moderator Share Posted June 20, 2018 C'mon guys, this is a Jeff Lau movie, was anyone really expecting anything other than what we see in the trailer? His last movie was 'Soccer Killer', and this looks to be much in the same vein. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted October 8, 2018 Member Share Posted October 8, 2018 New trailer... Looks like this one is going to be goofy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted October 9, 2018 Member Share Posted October 9, 2018 (edited) Goofy? Yeah that says it...but considering the cast, I'll still watch it. Tony Leung Siu-Hung is the action director. Edited October 9, 2018 by AlbertV 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted October 22, 2018 Author Member Share Posted October 22, 2018 City on Fire has another new trailer for Kung Fu League that doesn't look quite as comedic, here - http://cityonfire.com/the-expendables-of-legends-and-myths-in-kung-fu-big-league/ Trailer - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted October 31, 2018 Author Member Share Posted October 31, 2018 Movie review of Kung Fu League here - https://asianfilmstrike.com/2018/10/30/kung-fu-league-2018-review/ (The review has spoilers, not included below). "Bringing together four martial arts folk heroes in a time-travel adventure: it's an idea both far-fetched and obvious - an oxymoron that Jeff Lau embodies film after film. And so Kung Fu League unites Wong Fei Hung (no introduction needed), Huo Yuan Jia (most notably played by Jet Li in Ronny Yu's Fearless), his most famous student Chen Zhen (who really existed but was given a fictional heroic fate in Lo Wei's Fist of Fury) and Ip Man (no introduction needed either)... Kung Fu League spectacularly fails to deliver on the promise of its silly but intriguing concept. Jeff Lau's presence at the helm should have sounded a few alarms indeed, the film is his usual - and by now quite tiresome - brew of Mo Lei Tan and film spoofing, with a dash of his instantly dated fascination for technology (carried over from the painful Kung Fu Cyborg: Metallic Attraction). And despite having four martial arts icons portrayed by a talented quartet of actors, Lau sidelines them at every turn in favor of Ashin Shu's Fei Yingxiong, an unlikeable wuss whose cringe-worthy wish-fulfillment is the plot's main focus... For two thirds of the film, fighting is scarce, just a few skirmishes fussily choreographed by Tony Leung Siu-Hung; much like in Law Wing Cheong's Iceman, the time-traveling heroes' vast fighting superiority is translated into cartoonish flourishes - Huo Yuan Jia seems to almost teleport, for example... Where Jeff Lau manages to milk his concept a bit more satisfactorily, is in its comedic application. Seeing the four heroes storm out of Hengdian studios on horses (chased by Leung Kar Yan as a director trying to sign them for a contract), then take the subway with these horses is an amusing sight, and so is a brief karaoke duet by Ip Man and Chen Zhen. It helps that the four actors all display unsuspected comic timing." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted June 1, 2019 Author Member Share Posted June 1, 2019 Well Go USA releases Kung Fu League on Blu-ray and DVD on September 17, 2019. Info at - https://videoeta.com/items/213722-kung-fu-league and https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Kung-Fu-League-Blu-ray/244476/ Well Go USA does not appear to have its own trailer for Kung Fu League yet, so here's one from last December - 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted August 21, 2019 Author Member Share Posted August 21, 2019 New Well Go USA official trailer for Kung Fu League - 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Bus Posted August 24, 2019 Member Share Posted August 24, 2019 Seems like a dud 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted August 10, 2020 Moderator Share Posted August 10, 2020 I held off for 2 years watching this one, but like a moth to a flame it finally drew me in. I got burnt, burnt bad. Full review treatment over at COF - https://cityonfire.com/kung-fu-league-2018-review-kung-fu-alliance-big/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted August 11, 2020 Member Share Posted August 11, 2020 On 8/10/2020 at 5:24 AM, One Armed Boxer said: I held off for 2 years watching this one, but like a moth to a flame it finally drew me in. I got burnt, burnt bad. Full review treatment over at COF - https://cityonfire.com/kung-fu-league-2018-review-kung-fu-alliance-big/ Keep up the great work Paul, I always worth paying a visit to CityonFire.Com for the latest news, reviews and original content. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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