AlbertV
10-21-2009, 02:40 PM
I mentioned this in another thread for the film TAI CHI TIGER. However, Tiger Chen has announced at a press conference that he will be making his star debut in KUNG FU HERO while TAI CHI TIGER is still in the pre-production stage.
With that said, I felt an appropriate new thread for KUNG FU HERO should be made :)
A press conference was held earlier today to commemorate production on KUNG FU HERO. Co-directing the film will be Ning Ying and Yuen Cheung-Yan, who are pulling a Corey Yuen/Louis Leterrier TRANSPORTER collaboration with Ning handling all the drama and Yuen choreographing the film.
Chen plays a man who doesn't have many friends but that all changes when he meets a foreign kid and together, they become friends and fulfill not only the kid's dreams but his own as well. The film co-stars Jiang Meng Jie and Lin Shen. Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves is one of the film's executive producers, helping finance the film as a big favor for Tiger Chen, who was actually Reeves' martial arts instructor for the MATRIX trilogy. While Yuen Woo-Ping handled the overall training, it was Tiger who coached Reeves into learning the necessary moves for the trilogy and in return for his kung fu training, Reeves taught Chen English and acting.
Here's a pic of Tiger Chen and Jiang Meng Jie at the press conference, courtesy of SINA.
http://www.wu-jing.org/News/images/2009/2009_10_08_03_Kungfu_Hero_sn.jpg
KUNG FU HERO is coming out Summer 2010.
With that said, I felt an appropriate new thread for KUNG FU HERO should be made :)
A press conference was held earlier today to commemorate production on KUNG FU HERO. Co-directing the film will be Ning Ying and Yuen Cheung-Yan, who are pulling a Corey Yuen/Louis Leterrier TRANSPORTER collaboration with Ning handling all the drama and Yuen choreographing the film.
Chen plays a man who doesn't have many friends but that all changes when he meets a foreign kid and together, they become friends and fulfill not only the kid's dreams but his own as well. The film co-stars Jiang Meng Jie and Lin Shen. Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves is one of the film's executive producers, helping finance the film as a big favor for Tiger Chen, who was actually Reeves' martial arts instructor for the MATRIX trilogy. While Yuen Woo-Ping handled the overall training, it was Tiger who coached Reeves into learning the necessary moves for the trilogy and in return for his kung fu training, Reeves taught Chen English and acting.
Here's a pic of Tiger Chen and Jiang Meng Jie at the press conference, courtesy of SINA.
http://www.wu-jing.org/News/images/2009/2009_10_08_03_Kungfu_Hero_sn.jpg
KUNG FU HERO is coming out Summer 2010.