“Project Gutenberg” Chinese Theatrical Poster
Felix Chong, co-director of Donnie Yen’s The Lost Bladesman, teams up with frequent collaborator Alan Mak (Infernal Affairs) for an upcoming Hong Kong action film titled Project Gutenberg (read our review). The film is directed by Chong, based on a script co-written by Mak.
Project Gutenberg stars Chow Yun Fat (A Better Tomorrow) and Aaron Kwok (Monk Comes Down the Mountain) as a pair of gangsters in the counterfeiting business. The movie contains a homage to 1986’s A Better Tomorrow, which has Chow re-creating his iconic “burning a counterfeit bill” scene.
According to Variety, the story sees Hong Kong police hunting a gang of exceptional currency counterfeiters. Through a gang member (Kwok) whom they extradite from Thailand, the police find themselves on the trail of the gang’s shadowy mastermind (Chow). The film also stars Zhang Jingchu (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation), Liu Kai Chi (Z Storm) and Catherine Chau (Heaven in the Dark).
Project Gutenberg is getting a domestic release on September 30, 2018.
Updates: Another New Poster has arrived (via AFS). CYF with a gun is always a good thing.
Hopefully this isn’t funded by Mainland money so Chow may be actually allowed to shoot people.
Can’t wait for this – it’ll give me something to look forward to while TPTB work out if/when we’ll get a Cold War 3. 🙂
Martin Sandison has a good review up! I should save my paycheck for for it at DDDhouse!