Member DiP Posted August 9, 2010 Member Share Posted August 9, 2010 http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Donnie-Yen/26843438000?v=photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 Are Donnie and Qi auditioning for a remake of The Thin Man? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Gaijin84 Posted August 10, 2010 Member Share Posted August 10, 2010 Are Donnie and Qi auditioning for a remake of The Thin Man? lol - spot on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Maz Posted August 10, 2010 Member Share Posted August 10, 2010 http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2010-08-11/03173047344.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted August 11, 2010 Member Share Posted August 11, 2010 http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Donnie-Yen/26843438000?v=photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Rhythm-X Posted August 11, 2010 Member Share Posted August 11, 2010 Are Donnie and Qi auditioning for a remake of The Thin Man? I would absolutely love to see that hypothetical film. With every major studio looking to pillage their back catalogue for remake fodder, it's not even a particularly far fetched idea... it's an instant franchise waiting to happen, just add liquor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted August 15, 2010 Member Share Posted August 15, 2010 http://www.car1.hk/digital/2010/07/legend-of-the-fist/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted August 22, 2010 Member Share Posted August 22, 2010 http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Donnie-Yen/26843438000?v=photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kngfu Posted August 22, 2010 Member Share Posted August 22, 2010 I would absolutely love to see that hypothetical film. With every major studio looking to pillage their back catalogue for remake fodder, it's not even a particularly far fetched idea... it's an instant franchise waiting to happen, just add liquor. and Asta.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Maz Posted August 24, 2010 Member Share Posted August 24, 2010 Here's some art concepts for the movie: http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2010-08-25/03163063255.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Maz Posted August 25, 2010 Member Share Posted August 25, 2010 http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2010-08-25/19213064362.shtml A press con will take place tomorrow (26 Aug) to launch the official movie website and a new trailer will be released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted August 26, 2010 Member Share Posted August 26, 2010 New trailer is out (in Mandarin). NRK-SvUfNAg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted August 26, 2010 Member Share Posted August 26, 2010 I'm enjoying the odes to Bruce Lee but while I'm quite excited for this movie I fell it could go two ways. A lot of martial arts films have way too much substance injected into them, these days. While substance is, of course, an excellent thing, sometimes it's so overdone that it overshadows the action and makes the film feel too heavy. I'm hoping this isn't the case. I'm looking forward to a film with more than just three fight scenes and a nice balance of action and dramatics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member BLfan Posted August 26, 2010 Member Share Posted August 26, 2010 The new trailer looks good, great production values. Never a big fan of other people doing Bruce Lee screams but hopefully the movie turns out to be great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Maz Posted August 27, 2010 Member Share Posted August 27, 2010 Another new trailer in Cantonese UTYgWwrBGWk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member spawn Posted August 27, 2010 Member Share Posted August 27, 2010 Hmmm i have to admit, this is looking good, though i too don't like actors doing the Bruce Lee scream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted August 27, 2010 Member Share Posted August 27, 2010 Worst than screams is imitation. Hopefully, that's refrained for the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member VenomsFan Posted August 30, 2010 Member Share Posted August 30, 2010 Worst than screams is imitation. Hopefully, that's refrained for the movie. Don't hold your breath. There is a nunchaku scene. So it's safe to say there will be some imitation. I like Jet Li's hommage to the dojo scene in Kiss of the Dragon. It was modernized and well shot. This film though, I believe will put Yen at the top indefinitely. As you all have said the production seems top notch (I'm especially looking forward to the war battle scene - it looks like it's shot very well!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Maz Posted August 30, 2010 Member Share Posted August 30, 2010 http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2010-08-31/03483070401.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted August 31, 2010 Member Share Posted August 31, 2010 Don't hold your breath. There is a nunchaku scene. So it's safe to say there will be some imitation. Well, if it's going to be something like Legend of the Wolf which was restricted mostly to screams with a bit of mannerisms and not like Fist of Fury TV series (overdone and embarrassing), then I'm ok with it. It's to be remained whether it will be like the former, the latter or simply something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted September 2, 2010 Member Share Posted September 2, 2010 Reviews. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/legend-of-the-fist-the-return-of-chen-zhen-1004112453.story http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117943402.html?categoryId=31&cs=1 http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/reviews/venice-2010-review-legend-of-the-fist-the-return-of-chen-zhen.php http://www.filmbiz.asia/reviews/legend-of-the-fist-the-return-of-chen-zhen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted September 2, 2010 Member Share Posted September 2, 2010 Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (Jingwu fengyun – Chen Zhen) Dir: Andrew Lau. Hong Kong/China. 2010. 105mins Chen Zhen lives to fight again in Andrew Lau’s first foray into big-budget martial arts cinema. Reprising one of Bruce Lee’s most famous roles is never easy, but Donnie Yen has the stepping stone of Jet Li’s earlier reincarnation of kung-fu fighter Chen Zhen in Fist of Legend (1994) to bounce off, and he and Lau launch into the task with a great deal of verve. If the result is more solid and workmanlike than ravishingly poetic, that’s probably deliberate: period martial arts epics have retreated, for good market reasons, from the crossover high water mark set by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers, and are focusing these days (as Red Cliff demonstrated) on cleaning up in Asia, with sales elsewhere being seen as the icing on the cake. The fact that US distribution rights to Legend of the Fist have been picked up not by a big studio distributor but by niche operator Well Go, is telling in this respect. Ip Man, Well Go’s current Donnie Yen title, is being released first on DVD and BluRay, with a theatrical release being promised at some later date; and Legend of the Fist is likely to follow a similar trajectory. However, the film’s nationalist agenda, as well as its star cast and tasty period setting, should help to make it big in China, and results in Southeast Asia should be peppy. Martial arts warrior Chen Zhen is an entirely cinematic construct, created by writer Ni Kuang for the Bruce Lee vehicle Fist of Fury. Originally set in the twilight years of the Qing dynasty (which ended in 1912), the action has been moved forward here to the 1920s in order to set the standoff between Chinese and Japanese martial arts schools in Shanghai in a context of rising Japanese militarism and Chinese nationalist resistance. The four scriptwriters begin by dusting off the little-known historical episode of thousands of Chinese workers being forcibly sent off to fight alongside French and British forces in the First World War. Chen Zhen (Yen) is one of them, and it’s his experiences on the French killing fields that mould his Chinese nationalist pride. Nothing else in the film quite matches the exhilaration of the pre-title sequence, in which Chen Zhen and his companions attack a German position in a war-ravaged French town. After the war, going under the name of Ku, Chen Zhen befriends Liu Yutian (Wong), the good-hearted gangland owner of decadent Shanghai nightclub Casablanca, where sultry torch singer Kiki (Shu Qi) – who is not quite what she seems – performs nightly. But Chen is secretly a member of an underground group dedicated to resisting Japanese expansionism in Shanghai, and he adopts the identity of a Masked Warrior – borrowed from a cheesy Hollywood film playing at a downtown cinema – to foil Japanese designs in a series of tasty fights (all choreographed by Yen himself). Lush photography, a surging orchestral score and rich period detail creates a nicely tenebrous atmosphere of a tension-ridden city waiting uneasily for the match that lights the touchpaper. Western characters – like a bigoted police chief – are mere ciphers – but leads Yen (poised and elegant with his Gallicised look and manners) and Shu Qi fill out their roles, abetted ably by supporting players like Chen Yen’s main antagonist, Japanese colonel Chikariashi (Ryuichi). Production companies: Media Asia Films, Enlight Pictures, Shanghai Film Media Asia present a Basic Pictures production International sales: Media Asia Distribution, www.mediaasia.com Producers: Gordon Chan, Andrew Lau Executive producers: John Chong, Zhang Zhao, Zhang Guoli Screenplay: Cheng Chi Sing, Gordon Chan, Lui Koon Nam, Frankie Tam Cinematography: Andrew Lau, Ng Man Ching Production design: Eric Lam Editor: Azrael Chung Music: Chan Kwong Wing Main cast: Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong, Huang Bo, Kohata Ryuichi http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/latest-reviews/legend-of-the-fist-the-return-of-chen-zhen-jingwu-fengyun-chen-zhen/5017694.article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted September 2, 2010 Member Share Posted September 2, 2010 BTS footage of Donnie choreographing the action scenes. CoMp2TsgHwM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Rebornman Posted September 6, 2010 Member Share Posted September 6, 2010 Can't wait to see this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member IgaNinja Posted September 6, 2010 Member Share Posted September 6, 2010 Good to hear its getting mostly positive reviews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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