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| Asia Times Online |
Some serious noise is being made this month at the International Film Festival and Awards in Macao where directors and producers are talking movies, as well as announcing and pitching concepts for necessary funding. In this instance, leave it to Vulgaria and Dream Home helmer Pang Ho-Cheung who had been partaking as a guest speaker for a masterclass at the festival.
For this, Variety is offering news on Kung Fu Story, a trilogy of martial arts titles which Pang will film back-to-back. The films are currently being backed by several companies with Bravos Pictures handling the films internationally per the news from Variety shared on Sunday evening where Pang scantly discusses explicit details about the project, but highlighs his own personal goals as a filmmaker as well as previous development and movement overall. Here are several excerpts:
“Ever since childhood, I’ve always taken different paths. My most recent film, ‘Love off the Cuff,” was not a single-issue movie. (“Kung Fu Story”) will continue in that vein.”
“We’re going to shoot all three together, so we’ve spent a year a year and a half on preparation, and have now move into pre-production,”
“I’m very aware of the scale of the budget. In some ways it gives more freedom, in other ways I’m constantly reminded of my responsibility to the investors,” he said.
Love Off The Cuff, released back in the Spring, is just the latest in a trilogy of revisionist romance dramas from Pang starring Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung following the inaugural 2010 film, Love In A Puff and its sequel, Love In The Buff in 2012.
Variety highlights in its coverage that with Pang having touched on multiple genres in his career, it was merely a matter of time before the martial arts genre would be next on his to-do list. Folks familiar with the Love trilogy can probably imagine where Kung Fu Story will go while we await further details on what comes after this and the following year should rear some clues from here on.