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Director Chou to play Huang Fei Hong and meet Rain head on
by kelvin@multistars - 16th April 2006
Last year Director Chou got his DHC commercial taken by Korean artist Rain, the martial arts movie "Iron Monkey" directed by Yuan He Ping, is just like a heroes invitation to them, inviting the young heavenly kings of Taiwan and Korea to fight it out onscreen. In the movie Jay will play Huang Fei Hong, Chow Yung Fat who is just now playing his father in "City Full Of Golden Armour" is also in the cast.
Last year after Yuan He Ping was the martial arts guide for Jet Li's movie "Huo Yuan Chia", in the past few months, he has been preparing his new movie "Iron Monkey", the main character of this has been set as Chow Yung Fat, Jay will play Huang Fei Hong, Rain's role will be an all new character, the total production budget will be as high as HK$3 hundred million, it will have collective support from Mainland China, Korea, Singapore, etc….
Beforehand Yuan He Ping already flew to Beijing to the set of "City Full Of Golden Armour" to meet Chow Yung Fat and Director Chou, he did his best to persuade the two to accept the roles, and according to reports they also felt very interested. Yesterday reporters asked Chow Yung Fat's wife Chen Hui Lian, she said: "Both sides have met about this matter, but we cannot announce anything right now."
Due to the fact that "Iron Monkey" is estimated to start filming in September, Alfa Music general manager has confirmed that they have received an invitation, but the end of filming for "City Full Of Golden Armour" is at the end of June, this year's album is also going to be out in August, then Jay will have to promote his album, they have to have a look at the schedule.
Yuan He Ping has filmed the movie "The Young Huang Fei Hong – The Iron Monkey", he is familiar with this story, it talks about the end of the Qing Dynasty period, the Iron Monkey specializes in stealing from greedy corrupt government officials and also the story of his relation to the father and son Huang Qi Ying and Huang Fei Hong. He has intention to change Iron Monkey into a hero like Spiderman.