Bodyguards and Assassins starring Donnie Yen

[SimonM]

Yes, Chow Yunfat is booked to play Kongzi.

[Lucas]

sweet. should be some straight sword play in it then

[doug maverick]

so appereantly they are pulling out al the stops for this film spending 43million yuan on rebuilding shanghai attached is a pic of the scale map a promotion one sheet(poster) and a promo vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBKmiocDcM

[GeneChing]

...it's in the Dragonball thread.

[GeneChing]

Old Nick had it really hard.
Persis Khambatta would kick his ass in a baldness hardship contest.

Nicholas Tse Went all out for New Role
2009-05-04 12:57:03 CRIENGLISH.com Web Editor: Tian Tian

Hong Kong actor Nicholas Tse has gone all out for his new role in Director Teddy Chan's 'Bodyguards and Assassins' (formerly 'Dark October').

The actor had his head shaved bald, for the first time, to play a 'rickshaw puller' role in the upcoming star-studded film.

However, Tse has to undertake more than that. The actor who usually appears on screen with a squeaky-clean, handsome image will make do with a scared face in the film. Special makeup for his character allegedly takes hours to do.
Moreover, the actor also needs to devote time to sun bathing in order to get tanned and look more like a weather-beaten rickshaw puller.

The film 'Bodyguards and Assassins' tells the story of a group of people protecting Sun Yat-Sen against assassination when he was in Hong Kong raising funds on October 15, 1905.

Director Teddy Chan once explained that Sun Yat-Sen is not the key figure in Bodyguards and Assassins, rather the film shows the history of Hong Kong through a group of people protecting Sun Yat-Sen.

The power cast also includes Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, mainland popular actress Fan Bing Bing, veteran actor Wang Xueqi and Hu Jun. Pop singer Li Yuchun would make her screen debut in the film.

The 150 million yuan film produced by Peter Chan begins production in early April 2009 and will be released in December 2009.

[doug maverick]

nic tse is pretty tanned already they trying to make him black??? anyway thats not going all out, freaking Bobby Dinero(he told me to call him bobby on the set of righteous kill so im gonna stick to it, you never know who might be read, LOL) once flew back from making a film in italy to be a taxi cab driver to prepare for his role in taxi driver, now thats going all out.

[Tensei85]

Awesome! It sounds like this is going to be a great year for Chinese action flicks, can't wait!