Martial Arts Films

[Just Withnail]

Your avatar scares the shit out of me.

[Bruce Lee]

He does look like a man possesed there....and a bit kinda like Popeye

[MacGuffin]

Disney, Chabon retelling 'Snow'
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon will write "Snow and the Seven," an East-meets-West retelling of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," for Walt Disney Pictures. Hong Kong director Yuen Wo Ping will make his English-language directorial debut on the film, which Andrew Gunn is producing.

"Snow and the Seven" will be set in 1880s British colonial China and will have fantasy and martial arts elements, with the "seven" being Shaolin monks. The story also will hearken back to aspects of the original Grimm Brothers' fairy tale.

Brigham Taylor is the Disney exec on the project, and Gunnfilm's Ann Marie Sanderlin is executive producing.

Chabon is the author of "Wonder Boys" and "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," which won him the 2001 Pulitzer for literature. Chabon also was a writer on "Spider-Man 2."

Yuen Wo Ping is a veteran of the Hong King action scene, with almost 30 films to his credit, including "Iron Monkey" and "The Red Wolf." He also was the action choreographer on the "Kill Bill" movies and "The Matrix" films.

[matt35mm]

How very odd.  Sounds like a Summer tent-pole Jackie Chan pic, but with Michael Chabon attached.

Chabon has never failed to deliver the goods as far as I'm concerned, so not only will I give him the benefit of the doubt, but I will go ahead and predict that this will be an incredible movie.

[pete]

ah you americans still giving jackie chan crap.  that's like calling buster keaton a hack after watching only his talkies.
yuen wooping hasn't directed anything in a long time.  he's always been weird and funny and always delivers solid fight scenes.  I think it's time for him to stop playing monkey boy for big budget directors' eastern fantasies and become a monkey boy for big studio execs.

[cowboykurtis]

see the movie GYM KATA if you want something worth fighting for

[pete]

one day this thread will thrive like the horror thread and the porn thread.

[Stefen]

Wheres the porn thread? I got some free passwords I can post.

[matt35mm]

ah you americans still giving jackie chan crap.

I wasn't giving Jackie Chan crap, I was giving Summer tent-pole Jackie Chan movies crap (i.e. Rush Hour 2, Shanghai Noon/Knights, The Medallion, The Tuxedo, Around The World in 80 Days...)

Everyone in my family loves Jackie Chan.  I just think he's worth more than the collection of stunts and ethnic-mismatch-buddy-comedy that his American movies are.  He knows this as well, and has been complaining about it in interviews.  No one wants to play second fiddle to Chris "I Only Do Rush Hour Movies Now" Tucker.

[MacGuffin]

Jackie Chan, Jet Li set to star in new film

HONG KONG (AFP) - Chinese action stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li are set to star together for the first time in a new film, Chan's official website said.

"For years now, many producers have tried to put the two superstars together in a movie and both Jet and Jackie liked the idea very much," said Chan's manager Willie Chan.

Although both stars have agreed to a project, no date has been set for filming to begin and a script has yet to be finalised, the manager said.

"Let's keep our fingers crossed and who knows? Let's hope there will be a Jet Li/Jackie Chan project as soon as possible," he added.

A report on the Chinese news website Sina.com said the project would be formally announced at the Cannes Film Festival and shooting was expected to begin next year after Chan finishes filming "Rush Hour 3".

The report said that Li, star of "Fearless" and "Hero", has put all other offers on hold and stands to pocket 15 million US dollars from the film.

[MacGuffin]

Chan, Li get kicks together
Duo to star together for first time
Source: Variety

Let the fight begin.

Jackie Chan and Jet Li will star together for the first time in a $70 million family pic that Relativity Media will finance and Casey Silver produces.

Robert Minkoff will direct, while martial arts expert Yuen Woo-Ping ("The Master") will create the action sequences. Shooting is set for April.

Film is one of two new big-budget projects that Relativity -- backed by hedge fund money -- will be offering to buyers at the American Film Market, which unspools Wednesday in Santa Monica. The second is Brian De Palma's $70 million prequel "The Untouchables: Capone Rising," which Paramount will distribute domestically.

Both films will be repped at AFM by Mario Kassar's Magnetik Media, which also will be selling Relativity's previously announced Russell Crowe-Christian Bale starrer "3:10 to Yuma," which James Mangold is shooting.

Chan-Li starrer, known as the untitled J&J project, has been rumored for some time, but Relativity, headed by Ryan Kavanaugh, boarded only recently. John Fusco script is based on the legend of the monkey king and his quest to achieve immortality.

Li is set to play two roles, that of the monkey king and the silent monk. Chan will play the monk T'sa-Ho. The two martial-arts masters have long said they would like to appear together in a film and fight each other.

Project is sure to garner keen interest at AFM, with Chan and Li enjoying superstar status in Asia and solid name recognition among teen action fans worldwide.

Talks are already under way between Relativity and U.S. distribs.

When promoting the U.S. bow of Li's most recent movie, "Fearless," Rogue Pictures touted it as his last martial-arts epic. Relativity describes its project as more of an action-adventure with martial-arts sequences.

Minkoff's credits include "The Lion King" and "Stuart Little." Fusco most recently penned "Hidalgo."

Silver is producer of the Chan-Li pic, while Kavanaugh will exec produce.

Kavanaugh also will take an exec producer credit on "The Untouchables" prequel, set to start shooting in June. Art Linson, who produced De Palma's original "Untouchables," is producing.

Prequel was originally set up at Paramount. Relativity recently struck a deal to finance and produce, with Par agreeing to distribute in the U.S.

Writing duo Brian Koppelman and David Levien penned the script for "Untouchables: Capone Rising," which charts Chicago mob boss Al Capone's rise to power and his relationship with police detective and nemesis Jimmy Malone.

Koppelman and Levien, who wrote "Ocean's Thirteen," also penned "Runaway Jury" and "Rounders."

Magnetik will rep overseas rights to "Yuma," "Untouchables" and the Chan-Li pic through its new nonexclusive deal with Relativity.