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Andy Lau to join cast in "Kung Fu Dunk" with Jay Chou?
by kelvin@multistars - 7th May 2008Source: Yn Daily
In the Spring festival of 2008, a movie "Kung Fu Dunk" starring Jay Chou swept the box office, it gained praise from its all star cast and laid back story. Recently the news of the start of "Kung Fu Dunk 2" began circulating, after investigation from reporters they found out Jay Chou is directing it with Andrew Lau, Andy Lau is going to join the cast, his role in the movie hasn't been decided yet, also the roles of the 4 great masters will be greatly expanded in order to make up for the regret last time when they had to cut a lot out.
In the Spring festival of 2008, "Kung Fu Dunk" made nearly a hundred million rmb in Mainland China, it became a blockbuster. Facing such a good situation, the investors Taiwanese Chang Hong Channel Film expressed to the media they would film "Kung Fu Dunk 2". According to our understanding, filming will begin in March next year and end in June, they will once again arrange it to come out in the middle of the new year celebrations.
According to reports Jay Chou signed on to "Kung Fu Dunk 2" for NT$15 million, in the sequel Jay Chou won't be playing basketball anymore, he'll turn into a righteous hero after coming out of the kung fu school, therefore the name of the movie might change. According to the plan, the movie will be filmed between March and June next year in Shanghai, it will come out in the Spring festival of 2010.
According to informers, the director has been changed from Zhu Yan Ping to Andrew Lau, the screenwriter will be the director of "My Sassy Girl" Jae-young Kwak, and Jay Chou, who likes to direct, is also going to "stick his foot in" and participate in directing with Andrew Lau, this will be his second attempt being a director after his own "Secret".
In the last movie, the 4 great masters played by Huang Bo, Ng Man Tat and the others were cheered by the audience, their strange kung fu combined with basketball moves were very fresh, but in reality the screen time of the 4 great masters was not just that little bit at the end, but due to time constraints they had to cut out a lot of good scenes, Huang Bo and the rest felt very helpless about it.
But according to disclosures, they will "make it up" to Huang Bo and the others in the new movie, the producers will greatly increase the screen time of the 4 great masters, they will become a bright spot of the film. Yesterday Huang Bo accepted a phone interview with reporters and expressed that he had already been in contact with the producers, but they haven't got to a definite stage yet.
In the last movie, Jay Chou was sponsored by Deerhui for all the sports gear and they will continue to collaborate with this movie, they will create new sports clothes for this movie. When reporters were interviewing Deerhui personnel they found out, the movie will have even more stars than the last one, besides Eric Tsang, Jay Chou won't be the only main star anymore, Andy Lau will be joining the movie, he will become a very important person.
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