Perhaps not everyone knows, but the legendary Bruce Lee film "Big boss" 1971 there is quite an official proposal... which no one has seen.
We are talking about a film directed by Chana Chu, which filmed a sequel in Thailand back in 1976, but the action film ended up in production hell during post-production. As a result, the sequel was never released in China. The film seemed to have been forgotten for decades, only being remembered at the end of the XNUMXs. Then the sequel was “reassembled” and the “raw” version was shown in Quentin Tarantino’s cinema New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles in 2014. After which everyone forgot about Chan Chu’s project again.
News of renewed interest in lost classics came from behind the company's walls Grizzly Peak Films, run by martial arts practitioner, actor, screenwriter and director Michael Worth (“Become the best”, “Brass knuckles”). He believes that the film should be released to the masses and has even joined forces with the company Pearl River Films for restoration "Big Boss 2".
Played the main role in the film Lo Lieu ("Tigers", "The Godfather of Hong Kong"), playing the hero's brother Bruce Lee from the previous film. The rest of the cast is filled with familiar names that today can safely be considered among the classics of Hong Kong cinema: Bruce Le ("Ghost of the Tiger", "Ninja on the Great Wall"), Michael Chan ("Dragon Lord", "Ninja of the Five Elements"), Wang Ping ("Magnificent Bodyguards", "Tiger Killer").
It remains to add that "Big Boss 2" (1978) director To Man-Bo с Dragan Lee и Bolo Yen has nothing to do with the original action movie with Bruce Lee, while Chan Chu's film is a direct continuation of the classic. Well, we hope Worth gets his way and the film sees the light of day. In the meantime, you can enjoy the trailer, which was posted online in 2013.
Another sudden news concerns the mystical blockbuster of 2013 "47 Ronin" directed by Carl Rinsch. Let us remind you that this project was based on the classic Japanese story about 47 samurai who vowed to take revenge on the shogun for the death of their master.
Starred in the 2013 film Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada и Tadanobu Asano. Despite this, and on a decent budget, at the box office "47 Ronin" failed.
Interestingly, the news concerns the sequel of the film, which will be produced by the company Universal 1440 especially for the streaming giant Netflix. Moreover, the sequel will tell a similar story three hundred years after the events described in the original. Moreover, a full-fledged cyberpunk world awaits us, which lives according to the laws of feudal Japan.
A martial artist, stuntman, actor and director have signed on to direct the film. Ron Yuan, who as a director may be familiar from the short action film "Three Bullets" (2013) with Michael Jai White and dance film "Step Up 6: Dance City" (2019)
For now, the future science fiction project is at the pre-production stage, looking for a film crew and casting. Well, it's unlikely Keanu Reeves wants to return to this universe, but his Japanese colleagues may well do this, since Hiroyuki Sanada и Tadanobu Asano Currently working in the USA.
We already somehow wrote that in our era of digital television, narrowly focused streaming services are also developing, which are dedicated to action cinema that is specialized for our site. For example, they became like this Iron Dragon Television и ActionFlix.
The distribution company also acquired its own streaming channel Well Go USA, which licenses films from China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Europe and even Russia in North America.
The channel, which functions as a full-fledged Internet cinema, is called Hi-YAH! (the American analogue of “KII-YA!”) and began its active work last fall.
Since Well Go USA has an impressive list of releases, the channel is gradually building up a very solid base of hand-to-hand and action films. For example, you can find collections here Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan or Sammo Hunga. In addition, the company is “proud” of being the only one to license almost all of the Japanese director’s action films Takashi Miike.
As an example of the channel’s quality film library, you can see the release schedule for August: Thai action film "The Killer's Revenge" (2015) with Dan Chupong, Japanese historical drama "Samurai Marathon" (2019) with Takeru Sato, South Korean thriller "Villain" and Russian historical hit of 2018 "The Legend of Kolovrat".
In addition, the hand-to-hand short film Mayhem filmed specifically for the channel by a Vietnamese wing chun master, actor and director Peter Pham, whose hand-to-hand action "Misty Mountain", obviously, will also be shown on Hi-YAH!.
Well, the service entices you with a free month when you subscribe, taking into account the fact that the application operates like on devices Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),And Android.
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Tags: Big Boss 2, Blade Of The 47 Ronin, Netflix, Bruce Le, Bruce Lee, Lo Lieu, Michael Worth, Michael Chan, Peter Pham, Ron Yuan, Chan Chu
Tags: Big Boss 2, Blade Of The 47 Ronin, Netflix, Bruce Le, Bruce Lee, Lo Lieu, Michael Worth, Michael Chan, Peter Pham, Ron Yuan, Chan Chu
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