the princess

Now On Hulu: Le-Van Kiet’s THE PRINCESS Crowns Joey King With Brute Force Action And Empowerment

A filmmaker for more than fifteen years, it wasn’t until the 2019 rescue actioner, Furie, that the name, Le-Van Kiet, began registering for a lot of fans beyond the Vietnamese market. This ought to be stated with much credit to North American distributor Well Go USA for doing a more than ample job in proliferating its director, as well as its star, Veronica Ngo, as we now look at one of their latest endeavors expanding further into the West with The Princess, a script by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton that proffers a fresh, edgy, subversive and satisfyingly violent new take on childhood fairytales. It’s a script that landed right in the prospective hands of actress Joey King, who also gets to share the role of executive producer through her All The King’s Horses banner alongside the likes of Neal Moritz at Original Film. The film is also the latest […]

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THE PRINCESS: 60 Seconds Of Kick-Ass In A Fresh New Promo

Lee B. Golden III

The Hulu release of Furie and The Requin helmer Le-Van Kiet’s new action adventure, The Princess, is just hours away from hitting the streaming platform in the states, and the company has just rolled out a new promo to help warm up the crowd. I won’t go into details here since the film’s lead star, Joey King, pretty much does that in the player above, but I did get to join the preliminary gang of early watchers just yesterday to buzz the new film from 20th Century Studios, and I also got to screen it this week ahead of its release, which technically means I finally managed to screen my first major studio picture for a written review. That post goes up tomorrow, in the meantime, check out the promo above and feel free to give my tweet below a peaksy! The social media embargo ended last month for Le-Van […]

THE PRINCESS Slays Her Way Out Of A Castle In The Official Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Director Le-Van Kiet is officially making his crossover to the West in firm fashion with The Princess, and with a trailer that suits itself excellently following his previous hustle, Vietnam’s 2019 one-woman army actioner Furie. The Princess crowns actress Joey King as the lead for the subversive new tale from Kiet about a young Princess who defies gender-norms as she throws her full weight into the fray, fighting her way out of an unwanted marriage to save her kingdom. An action-packed fight to the death set in a fairy tale world, “The Princess” is directed by Le-Van Kiet (“Furie”) and stars Emmy Award® nominee Joey King (“The Act,” “The Kissing Booth”) as a beautiful, strong-willed princess who refuses to wed the cruel sociopath to whom she is betrothed, and is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father’s castle. With her scorned, vindictive suitor intent on taking her […]