Our everything from modern combat cinema - British actor Scott Adkins continues to recruit projects. Information about the latter has only recently appeared.
It should be a Chinese action movie with a strange name "Fast Bodyguard" (Quick Bodyguard). The project is led by a Chinese martial artist, stuntman and actor. Tiger Hu Chen (“Kung Fu Master”, “Tai Chi Master”, “Kung Fu Traveler”), who owns the concept of the film. He will also perform producing and directing duties, thus becoming a debut director.
There are no plot details yet, and it is very difficult to understand anything from the teaser poster. Interestingly, the poster indicates that the action film is set to release in 2021, which is, of course, strange.
44-year-old Scott Adkins (Undisputed franchise, Max Cloud) will obviously play the role of the main antagonist opposing the main character, played by Tiger himself. Also in the cast is an actress Mia Muzi, who played with Jackie Chan in films such as "Armor of God: In Search of Treasure" (2017) and "Vanguard: Arctic Wolves" (2020)
Adkins and Hu Chen have already met in joint films "Danny: Chain Dog" (2005), where Tiger was Jet Li's stunt double and in "Triple Threat" (2019)
"Fast Bodyguard" became the fifth film in the list of expected hand-to-hand action films from the British hero. Besides him, Adkins fans can expect action films "Avenger" William Kaufman "Castle Falls" Dolph Lundgren, "One Shot" James Nunn and "Day shift" JJ Perry.
Malaysian taekwondo master, stuntman and actor Khairul Azreen, known for his roles in action films "Pascal. Movie" (2018) "Retribution" (2019) and comedy "It's all because of you" (2020) will play a major role in the next project of the genre film director Ranjeta R. Marwy.
Prolific Raniet in collaboration with martial artist, stuntman, actor and action director Nick Khan between us, we have at least three potentially interesting projects in development for our brother, but none of them have reached release yet.
Azrin will have to play the leading role in the thriller "Berserker" (Berzerker) based on the script by Marva himself and his co-author Daniel White. Khairul will play the role of Noble, an ex-convict who lives with hatred for those who imprisoned him. Interestingly, the upcoming film should have a fantasy setting. The director himself described Berserker as a combination "Blade Runner" и "Ong-Bak".
It is known that principal photography will take place in Birmingham in July this year. For the action and fight choreography, in addition to what we are already familiar with Nika Khan, a professional stuntman from Manchester also answers Kiran Pande, who directed the action scenes in the British zombie action film "Quarantine Z" (2018)
We continue to expect from a Briton with Indonesian roots Ranjeta R. Marwy thrillers like "Exiled: The Chosen", "Blood Tide" и "She-Wolves".
After the release of the reboot of the game franchise "Mortal Kombat", many fans of combat cinema remembered such a wonderful Japanese actor as Hiroyuki Sanada. He once shone in Japanese and Hong Kong hand-to-hand action films as a member of the team Japan Action Club headed by the legendary Sonny Chiba.
Over time, Sanada-san successfully moved into the cohort of dramatic actors and moved to Hollywood, from time to time returning to action roles (“The Last Samurai”, “Rush Hour 3”, “47 Ronin”, “Avengers: Endgame”). However, the role of Hanzo Hasashi (aka Scorpio) in "Mortal Kombat" demonstrated that Hiroyuki, at 60 years old, is in excellent physical and acting shape.
A zombie action movie was recently released "Army of the Dead" from director Zack Snyder, in which Sanada played a significant role, and then the actor signed on for two interesting projects. The first is an action thriller from director David Leitch "High-speed train" starring Brad Pitt, second mini-series "Shogun" (Shogun). And if we are already talking about the first wrote, then it’s worth talking about the second in more detail.
Yes, "Shogun" will be a new adaptation of the famous novel James Clavell and, in fact, a remake of the cult series of 1980, the main roles in which were played by epoch-making actors of their time - Richard Chamberlain и Toshiro Mifune.
In the new version Hiroyuke Sanada the second leading role of Yoshi Toranaga will be given, and the leading role of pilot John Blackthorne will be given to Cosmo Jarvis (TV series Peaky Blinders, Brand, Hungter Killer).
Let us recall the synopsis: XVI century. An English ship is wrecked off the coast of Japan. The surviving crew members, including pilot John Blackthorn, are captured. The powerful Prince Toranaga takes Blackthorn, who knows geography, mathematics and military science, under his wing. Step by step, the Englishman comprehends the harsh laws of the samurai, learns the Japanese language, and delves into a psychology completely alien to the European.
Filming of the ten-episode film is scheduled to begin in June. When and where you can watch the series is still unknown. But we will keep our finger on the pulse. In the meantime, you can watch the trailer for the 1980 original.
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Tags: Quick Bodyguard, Rend, Shogun, Kiran Pande, Cosmo Jarvis, Mia Muzi, Nick Khan, Raniet S. Marwa, soap opera, Scott Adkins, Tiger Chen, Khairul Azreen, Hiroyuki Sanada
Only “Day Shift” and “One Shot”, the rest is a hat, where Adkins just came for a salary