Jet Li / Jackie Chan Collaboration = "Hero" Meets "Drunken Master"?
It's been widely reported that martial arts superstars Jackie Chan and Jet Li are about to begin working on a project together, and it looks like a few small nuggets of information are just now hitting the net. Seems that the movie will be at least somewhat based on the legendary Chinese story known as "Journey to the West."
[Thanks to RT's Kathryn Kenworth for this awesome Jet-Jackie mockup!]
According to Asian movie-geek site MonkeyPeaches, the movie is about "a modern day kung fu master (who) accidentally travels back to the ancient China and meets the Monkey King -- but the article does not mention who is playing whom. The journalist who wrote the story claims she has been tipped off by someone from Shanghai Film Group, which is in talk(s) to facilitate the production in the city. The Monkey King is a character from classic Chinese novel "Journey to the West." He single handily pillages the heaven(s), (is) punished by the Buddha, (and) then becomes a disciple and guardian of Tang Monk."
"Drunken Master" in the West?
Sounds pretty interesting (and you can check out the latest update at the MP site) to me, and apparently I'm not the only one. It wasn't too long ago that Steven Spielberg was looking to turn "Journey to the West" into a feature film.
Jet Li to be "Unleashed" with Jackie Chan!
Anyway, Jackie Chan and Jet Li could co-star in a movie called "Watching Paint Dry" and it'd still be worth seeing.
Author: Scott Weinberg
[Thanks to RT's Kathryn Kenworth for this awesome Jet-Jackie mockup!]
According to Asian movie-geek site MonkeyPeaches, the movie is about "a modern day kung fu master (who) accidentally travels back to the ancient China and meets the Monkey King -- but the article does not mention who is playing whom. The journalist who wrote the story claims she has been tipped off by someone from Shanghai Film Group, which is in talk(s) to facilitate the production in the city. The Monkey King is a character from classic Chinese novel "Journey to the West." He single handily pillages the heaven(s), (is) punished by the Buddha, (and) then becomes a disciple and guardian of Tang Monk."
"Drunken Master" in the West?
Sounds pretty interesting (and you can check out the latest update at the MP site) to me, and apparently I'm not the only one. It wasn't too long ago that Steven Spielberg was looking to turn "Journey to the West" into a feature film.
Jet Li to be "Unleashed" with Jackie Chan!
Anyway, Jackie Chan and Jet Li could co-star in a movie called "Watching Paint Dry" and it'd still be worth seeing.
Author: Scott Weinberg
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on Aug 04 2006 08:12 PM [b]wow[/b] anything working (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 04 2006 08:35 PM The dream team... Just add Chow Yun Fat and John Woo as director. (Reply to this) |
on Aug 04 2006 08:56 PM fix your site! (Reply to this) |
on Aug 05 2006 04:15 AM So much for Fearless being Jet Li's final martial arts movie, like the trailer advertised (not that I ever believed that for a second). (Reply to this) |
on Aug 05 2006 05:39 AM In reply to this comment (#841493) Well, that announcement was kinda confusing - Fearless is his last martial arts epic about a real-life/mythical martial arts master. Films that he include in that category are: - Fearless (Hua Yuen Jia) - The Tai Chi Master (Jun Sen Fung) - Once Upon a Time in China (Wong Fei Hung) - Fist of Legend (Chen Zen/Bruce Lee) - New Legend of Shaolin (Hung Hei Kwun) - Fong Sai-Yuk The chinese titles for most of these films actually uses the name of the martial artists, so you can see why he wouldn't want to do another martial arts movie about another famous martial artist. He pretty much did everyone of them already. Anyway, he doesn't put a movie like Hero in the same category. (Reply to this) |
on Aug 05 2006 09:37 AM hey, you forgot Hero up there. And I thought it was supposed to be his last Wushu film. He can still do martial arts films and the such, not just flying on tree tops kinda stuff. Oh, and I really hope this is a versus film because... well, just like in Heat, you wanted to know who would win, Al Pacino or Robert Deniro. Never mind the fact that it was already predecided (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 05 2006 03:29 PM put jackie chan and jet lie in a movie and let stephen chow direct it.... it will probably become the most entertaining movie ever!!! (Reply to this) |
on Aug 08 2006 07:00 AM What about this upstart Tony Jaa? Anyone heard anything on this guy...my initial research has left me guessing.....he looks like someone right up Chan's alley... (Reply to this) |
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