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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
Topic Started: Oct 29 2009, 11:22 PM (12,289 Views)
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Heck ya! That's wallpaper material right there. That's fantastic.
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Media Asia page of the movie. Featuring few small-scale stills!

http://www.mediaasia.com/movie.php?isFilm=...der&film_id=258
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While China is traumatized by military cliques during the Warlord Era in the 1920s, Shanghai is the cynosure of all eyes. People see it as both Hell’s Kitchen and Heaven’s Gate. One of the city’s most memorable heroes has to be Chen Zhen, who single-handedly avenges his mentor’s death by killing all the Japanese at a dojo in Hongkou, only to be showered with bullets while making his legendary flying kick. Vanished from the public eye ever since, he has been taken for dead though his body is never found.
Seven years later, a wealthy entrepreneur called Koo returns from abroad and makes a grand entrance on the Shanghai social scene by befriending the notorious mafia boss of the city. This mysterious man is none other than Chen Zhen in disguise who dwells in a world of nefarious means in order to infiltrate the criminal empire. He soon discovers a clandestine collusion between the mafia and the Japanese.
Disguised as a caped crusader at night, Chen sets out to dismantle with his martial arts skill the evil collusion that plaques the country. One of his foremost missions is to ferret out the assassination list prepared by the Japanese.
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40 second short clip of Legend of Chen Zhen showing some action

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/_50wGx_FUmk
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The Green Hornet, Blood Brothers and Assembly rolled into one. This is going to be awesome!
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I was initially worry that we were going to see Donnie jumping and flying in the air like Spider-Man or perform other crazy wire-work feats but I'm glad to see the superhero elements were kept in the realm of plausible capability.

Lately, Donnie has been pushing the envelope in Hong Kong as a action director and for that, I greatly appreciate his efforts. I'm sure he's going to pull all stops to give us something spectacular for this movie.
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its so funny DooK pointed that out.
it literally looked like donnie yen dressed as Kato running through the Assembly set; onto Blood Brothers set and then going all Green Hornet minus (Mild mannered Newspaper publisher) Britt Reid.
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Thanks Maz I uploaded the video to our youtube page
That is funny, for that preview makes it look like he is morphing(running) through those film sets mentioned
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KfBDc1yRp0[/YOUTUBE]
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Haha! I do hope y'all didn't take that as sarcasm though. I actually think the combination is fitting for the movie. At least we won't be seeing a literal superhero version of Chen Zhen with lots of wirework and cheap CG, that has been reported over these past months.
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Donnie Yen Dedicates Legend of Chen Zhen to Bruce Lee

-- Legend of Chen Zhen --

In an interview with The Bund, Donnie Yen describes the rendition of his role in Legend of Chen Zhen as an enhanced version of Bruce Lee's Chen Zhen, "The Chen Zhen that I'm portraying will carry traces of Bruce Lee's shadows, his sentiments, his deportment. I hope to pay tribute to him. At the same time, I'd also incorporate my own ideals, and fighting styles, you can say that this is Bruce Lee's Chen Zhen completely re-imagined, and elevated.

"That I also served as the martial arts director for Legend of Chen Zhen was because I'm more familiar with how Bruce Lee fought. Moreover, personally, I'm partial to Bruce Lee. It's very trying being a martial arts director, I didn't want to do it, but when many producers look for me, all of them want me to action direct, apart from acting.

"In today's market, there are only 2, 3 martial arts choreographers with real abilities, but they're all very busy. And, I, having a predilection for innovations, am game to try out bold, new things, it's even harder to look for someone like this. It's double the workload when you also work as the martial arts director, and you don't get a very high pay for it, certainly much less than being an actor, but for the sake of the film's final result, I would still take up the job."

Legend of Chen Zhen, starring Donnie Yen, Anthony Wong, Ryu Kohata, Chen Jia Jia, Shi Feng, Shu Qi, Huo Si Yan, has wrapped up filming in early February. Recently, CCTV aired an early preview footage from the film that has been uploaded and posted on Baidu forum.

http://www.wu-jing.org/happenings/archives...-Bruce-Lee.html
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Donnie Yen Returns as Chen Zhen, But... His Legendary Fist Hath Fury No More?

-- Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen --

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Recently, a brief preview clip of Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen was shown at Hong Kong Filmart 2010, the visitors were all very impressed by the action scenes that they could never had enough, but noted Donnie Yen's resemblance to Kato from Green Hornet.

Donnie Yen explains that he had been discussing with director Andrew Lau at length, hoping to make a breakthrough in his appearance, and eventually, they decided to create this comicbook superhero outfit. In addition, the film will be a departure from Donnie Yen's previous action choreographies, presenting something completely new.

Producer Gordon Chan says that he and director Andrew Lau are close friends who grew up together. Having worked with Donnie Yen on Painted Skin, he has explicit confidence in him. This collaboration gives him immense happiness, far exceeding his initial expectations, "When I was thinking of making this film, they were the first to come to my mind, what kind of sparks would be generated when the three of us team up?"

Andrew Lau says that filming went on very smoothly, and the trio enjoyed working with each other, "Filming for The Return of Chen Zhen proceeded at great speed, much faster than I expected. It's now undergoing post-production."

Legend of the Fist: Return of Chen Zhen is scheduled for release on October 1, 2010 and flashbacks from some classic moments in Fist of Fury could be seen in the film.

http://www.wu-jing.org/happenings/archives...ry-No-More.html
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Posters.

http://www.wu-jing.org/happenings/archives...Conscience.html
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Return of Chen Zhen: A Trend-setter or Follower?

Producer Gordon Chan explains the origin of the Chinese title for the film, "In the title 《精武风云》 Jing Wu Feng Yun, Jing Wu refers to my Fist of Legend, while Feng Yun denotes director Andrew Lau's Stormriders. My story, his look and feel, a la Stormriders. This is how the title came about."

Donnie Yen pondered over it for years before accepting this project. Same goes for Andrew Lau, "Gordon Chan has done it before!" Eventually, they came up with a new concept, to elevate Chen Zhen into a superhero, Chen Zhen would not only be fighting the Japanese, but he would also be a symbol of justice, a superhero, so Chen Zhen's image in the film would be more fantastic, like Green Hornet's Kato, or like Black Mask.

Andrew Lau recalls, "Donnie Yen turned down the project flatly at first, saying that there were so many other Chen Zhen films out there already, what could you have come up with that would be new? It wasn't until one day, when I told him we're shooting a superhero film, was he open to negotiations."

Gordon Chan elaborates, "My script has never been rejected before, this was the first time, Andrew Lau returned the script to me. Actually, during the production, Andrew Lau, Donnie Yen and I were challenging ourselves everyday, and constantly aiming even higher and higher. For instance, pertaining to me my script, Andrew Lau told me, 'This still won't do, write a little more!' So, I could only acquiesce. I rewrote the script eight times, and still had to keep changing it on the set. But I was very happy with the process, for through endless experiments and discussions, we've made many breakthroughs."

Andrew Lau remarks, "There is plenty of room for development in between the fictitious and reality, I tried my best to find a balance, trying to be creative, without being too over-the-top, I could take some criticisms, but I would not want my movie turn into something freakish."

Gordon Chan continues, "You can say that Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen is a luxurious version of Fist of Fury. While both I and Donnie Yen have done Chen Zhen film and TV series respectively back then, and there was the Japanese dojo both in works, both of us were completely floored on arriving on the set of Return of Chen Zhen everyday: How could there be such a beautiful Japanese dojo! Really thought it was very good, very majestic.

"In this scene, Chen Zhen faces 150 karate experts, at that time, we recruited many, many real-life kyūdan black-belt karate experts to fight Donnie Yen. So, once, when director Benny Chan came visiting our set, his jaw dropped too: 'Didn't know you could do it so magnificently!' This scene was a very big challenge to Donnie Yen, so I believe that he is always able to give everyone surprises."

Andrew Lau adds, "We possessed a kind of creative policy when filming The Return of Chen Zhen, each action scene should not stop at the set, but it also shows the mood of scene, like what kind of fresh ideas could be added to the fighting, the elements that the audience could never imagine. For example, when I shoot a less complicated action scene, I would add many special touches, like a rainy night, or when the temperature drops to -3 °C, I would also have to shoot, so, we were always 'playing' with the audience."

http://www.wu-jing.org/happenings/archives...r-Follower.html
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That sounds hilariously awesome.
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