“Anita” Theatrical Poster
A director’s director’s cut of Anita, based on the life of the late Anita Mui Yim-fong (Drunken Master II, Rumble in the Bronx), will be making its way to Disney+ as part of its 2022 APAC (Asia-Pacific) slate.
The director’s cut is going to be released in five 45-minute installments on Disney+. This new directors cut will have an extra hour of content that was cut from original film (via WODP).
Directed by Longman Leung (Helios, Cold War II), the film stars model Louise Wong, making her acting debut, as the hugely popular Hong Kong singer and actress who died in 2003 aged just 40. Terrance Lau co-stars alongside Wong (via SD).
The film also stars Ayumu Nakajima (Ito), Louis Koo (Paradox), Tony Yang (The Adventurers), Gordon Lam (Limbo), Miriam Yeung (The Sorcerer and the White Snake), Terrance Lau (Leap Day), David Siu (Napping Kid) and Waise Lee (A Better Tomorrow).
Anita is something of a pet project for Bill Kong Chi-keung, the boss of major Hong Kong film company Edko Films and the influential producer behind such contemporary classics as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero. As the producer of, and biggest investor in, Anita, Kong was still full of gratitude when he spoke of an early encounter with Mui during a recent interview with the Post.
Mui’s fan base reached far beyond Hong Kong into many parts of Asia. In the Hong Kong entertainment industry, where stars often rise and fall quickly, Mui remained in the spotlight for 21 years. In 2003, her career came to an abrupt halt when she announced that she had cervical cancer (via Wiki).
Look out for it in 2022. Until then, don’t miss the film’s Trailer:
I wonder who’ll be playing Jackie Chan?
JC Chan would have been perfect if he wasn’t disgraced.
Hmm. I hope the film is in good taste. I read that her family had been exploiting Anita’s death for money.
I remember a year before her passing, she was performing in Las Vegas, and I was disappointed that I couldn’t make it down there. I never thought that would be the last time.
Longman Leung, hmmm, looking forward to a lot of talking set to a bombastically crescendoing score, even if its just about what was had for breakfast.