The Movies That Moved Me: Ang Lee’s CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON
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Bruce Lee Biopic Gets New Life At Sony Division, Ang Lee Tapped To Direct Son In The Lead Role
Media mogul Shannon Lee has been pursuing a biopic about her late father, actor and martial arts sensation Bruce Lee for years but now it looks like we have a solid footing over at Sony’s 3000 Pictures. What’s more is that celebrated Life Of Pi, Hulk and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon director Ang Lee is on deck to direct the film with none other than his son, Mason Lee (The Hangover II, Who Killed Cock Robin?) attached to play the part of the screen legend. The film had been in the works as of 2015 for Bruce Lee’s daughter who launched Bruce Lee Enterprises a year prior. One project would have seen the then-titled “Little Dragon” with Shekaur Kapur at the helm as of its announcement back in 2017 which unfortunately never came to pass, while other screen incarnations of her father would materialize through George Nolfi’s Birth Of The […]
GEMINI MAN: It’s A Battle Of ‘Wills’ In The New Official Trailer!
It’s the ultimate battle for which Will Smith (a la Men In Black) “makes this look good” with visionary director Ang Lee’s Gemini Man scoring an October 11 release. Paramount Pictures has an impressive slate on its hands which also lists this particular sci-fi thriller that’s been long in the making with years of its constant on-and-off the shelf treatment between directors and studios. Gemini Man is an innovative action-thriller starring Will Smith as Henry Brogan, an elite assassin, who is suddenly targeted and pursued by a mysterious young operative that seemingly can predict his every move. Also starring are Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen and Benedict Wong. Check out the brand new trailer above.
GEMINI MAN: Old Will Smith Battles Young Will Smith To The Death In The First Trailer
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon director Ang Lee’s new sci-fi thriller finally gets a first trailer with Gemini Man launching on Tuesday. The long-awaited action thriller that spent more than a two-decades in development hell at Disney before landing a new home at Paramount and Skydance in the last several years. Alas, if seeing old Will Smith in a spawling futuristic death battle with young Will Smith is what you so fancy, then Gemini Man is proudly poised to hand you all that on a silver platter on October 11. Also starring are Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen and Marvel’s Doctor Strange and Avengers: Infinity War co-star Benedict Wong. Gemini Man is an innovative action-thriller starring Will Smith as Henry Brogan, an elite assassin, who is suddenly targeted and pursued by a mysterious young operative that seemingly can predict his every move. The film is directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Ang […]
GEMINI MAN Adds Mary Elizabeth Winstead; Adds ‘John Wick 2’ Stunt Coordinator
Universal Big things are finally impending after more than two decades for Paramount and Skydance’s long-awaited production of fantasy action thriller, Gemini Man. Will Smith, cast early on as the lead will be joined by actor Clive Owen and actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead as trade news sources THR and Variety have noted in recent memory for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon helmer Ang Lee to direct. The project was originally set up at Disney from a pitch by Darren Lemke in 1997 but remained on the backburner due to the lack of technology for the same actor to produce dual performances on screen. Nowadays with such tech on hand, the Bright star will lead the film as an over-the-hill assassin who becomes the prime target of a cloning program that assigns his killer, a rendition of himself 25 years younger, to take him out. Owen will star as the head of […]
GEMINI MAN Courts Will Smith To Star
Darren Lemke’s pitch for assassin thriller, Gemini Man has been in a development slump for twenty years before news finally picked up last Friday. Thus, with the film ultimately landing at Skydance and acclaimed director Ang Lee possibly game to helm the pic, it looks like the film could have its star. Leave that for actor Will Smith to decide per the latest report from THR as he’s being courted to play an aging assassin forced back in the game when he’s pitted against a version of himself 25 years younger and in his prime. The studio is much more keen on the film’s possibility through the advancement of technology used to replicate actor’s faces as seen in films like Captain America: Civil War and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. Lee will be joined by Jerry Bruckheimer who will produce with Don Murphy executive producing. Smith, in the wake of […]
Ang Lee In Talks To Direct Clone Assassin Thriller, GEMINI MAN
20 years in the making, it appears a new and long-awaited high-concept action thriller may finally see the light of day at Skydance. Titled Gemini Man, Ang Lee (Billy Long’s Halftime Walk, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) is reported to be in talks to direct the film once housed at Disney as a pitch from Darren Lemke until Skydance scooped it up last October. The plot, according to THR‘s exclusive, would follow an aging assassin on his way out of the game until he finds himself fighting a clone 25 years younger and stronger than him. The film reportedly stayed stagnant over the years due to the lack of technology required to replicate actors’ faces as we now see exemplifed with Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy, Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Robert Downey Jr. as seen in Captain America: Civil War, and even to some degree in James […]
Ronny Yu Declines On SILVER VASE, IRON KNIGHT
In a new article from Yahoo! Singapore about actor Ekin Cheng, it was reported that director Ronny Yu will not be helming the upcoming sequel to Ang Lee’s award-winning martial arts epic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Back in January, Deadline reported that The Weinstein Company was confident it secured the rights to Chinese author Wang Du Lu’s 5-part “Crane-Iron” book series to produce Silver Vase, Iron Knight, with martial artist and screenwriter John Fusco providing the script. Although no other cast members have officially been annouced, international actress and action star Michelle Yeoh is set to reprise her role from Ang Lee’s film as swordwoman, Yu Shu Lien, with master martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping directing the action. When Ronny was asked about this week’s reports, he said the following: “They did ask me but I declined it. Ang Lee’s film is a classic and I respect him too much […]
Michelle Yeoh Speaks Out On CROUCHING TIGER Sequel
Metro recently got the chance to speak to international actress and action star Michelle Yeoh about her career from her days in dance to her rise as a Hong Kong action star. Among other things, the interview also illustrates where Yeoh currently stands while it is rumored she may reprise her role in Silver Vase, Iron Knight, the sequel to Ang Lee’s 2000 Oscar and Academy award-winning epic wuxia action love story, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, set to start shooting this May. According to intial reports from Deadline, The Weinstein Company is confident it has secured the rights to Chinese novelist Wang Du Lu‘s “Crane-Iron” book series, with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon having been the fourth entry. Silver Vase, Iron Knight already has a script prepared by writer John Fusco who had this to say to Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. about the fifth book and what it could bring in […]
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