"The Bullet Vanishes" Teaser Poster
The teaser trailer is now online for The Bullet Vanishes, a big-budget Chinese murder mystery with Nicholas Tse as a gun-slinging detective and Lau Ching-Wan as his eccentric partner.
This looks to be a period piece in the vein of Guy Ritchie’s recent Sherlock Holmes films: think lavish production design, loud action set-pieces, and plenty of suspense.
The cast includes Yang Mi, Jing Boran, Wu Gang, Liu Kai Chi, and Jiang Yiyan. Ghost Bullets is produced by Derek Yee (Triple Tap, Shinjuku Incident) and directed by Law Chi Leung (Inner Senses, Koma). It releases across China this August 14th, 2012.
Sina has posted all-new stills from the movie. Enjoy new concept poster for the film, courtesy of Chinese Films.
Some new stills for the film feature Nicholas Tse, though they also bear the Chinese Films watermark. Sina has posted a collection of seven new character posters. Thanks to DiP for the heads up!
The full-length trailer is now online. No English subtitles as of yet.
BREAKING NEWS: Distributor China Lion is bringing the film to North American theaters on August 31st, 2012. Select cities include New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, Boston, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington DC.
WTF!!! this is not channeling sherlock holmes or any other crappy hollywood movie. china has been making movies like this long before america. it’s the opposite, hollywood has been ripping off asian movies for years.
I didn’t mean to offend. I know what you’re saying. It’s just that when you’re writing about dozens of Chinese movies all the time, sometimes you come up with a shorthand to differentiate them to the casual viewer. So by saying “Ghost Bullets” is “Sherlock Holmes”-like, it gives the average person a better idea of what the movie looks like, at least, compared to any other movie starring Lau Ching Wan. It’s the same reason people are describing Lau Ching Wan’s “Fairy Tale Killer” as being “Seven”-like. But yeah, I didn’t mean to imply that the “Ghost Bullets” filmmakers are ripping off Guy Ritchie or the BBC or something.