“Cold War 1994” Poster
Two prequels to the Cold War franchise (2012’s Cold War and 2016’s Cold War 2) are on their way from Edko Films.
Longman Leung, who co-directed the original films (along with frequent collaborator, Sunny Luk), shot the two prequels back-to-back.
Titled Cold War 1994 and Cold War 1995, the movies collectively star Daniel Wu (Sky on Fire), Terrance Lau (Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In), Tse Kwan Ho (Warriors of Future), Louise Wong (A Guilty Conscience), Chow Yun Fat (Project Gutenberg), Aaron Kwok (The White Storm 3), Tony Leung Ka Fai (Blades of the Guardians) and Louis Koo (Back to the Past).
Additional cast members include Wu Kang Ren (Copycat Killer), Tse Kwan Ho (Cesium Fallout), Louise Wong (Anita), Fish Liew (Someone Like Me), Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) and a rumored cameo from Yuen Biao (Operation Bangkok).
The prequels will revolve around a high-ranking police officer from the previous Cold War films, who is forced to walk a fine line between the triads, the elites and the British colonial government, while keeping a high-profile kidnapping case out of the media (via Screen Daily).
Cold War 1994 opens domestically on May 1. In the meantime, check out the new trailer below, along with some recent ones:
First two Cold War movies were more about politics inside the Hong Kong Police; this seems more like your usual cops vs triads action movie, which is fine but still a different tone to the first two movies.
That looks like Yuen Biao around 1:35 of the trailer. If that’s the case, it matches the reporting by HK media that he has a cameo in it. Been quite a while since he’s appeared in a HK movie.
I wonder if this is why The Furious hasn’t got a release date in HK/China yet; both Cold War and Furious are produced by Bill Kong, who probably doesn’t want these two to eat into each other’s box office.
Good catch. Certainly looks like him!
Valerian chow also in the movie. Yuen biao in it for sure.