“Deer and Cauldron” Teaser Poster
Men Suddenly in Black and Dream Home filmmaker Pang Ho-Cheung is taking a stab at the martial arts genre with the popular wuxia series, Deer and Cauldron, which he’ll produce and direct.
According to Variety (via AFS), the film will be set in the Qing Dynasty era, and ranging widely in a fashion comparable to Harry Potter or the Game of Thrones series, the books were written some 70 years ago by Louis Cha (aka Jin Rong), the father of the wu xia chivalric martial arts literary genre, who died last year. Cha’s novels have been previously adapted by Stephen Chow and others, and were shot as a Hong Kong TV series more than 20 years ago.
Production for Deer and Cauldron begins in mid-2019. Pang plans to shoot all three movies back-to-back, with the first arriving in 2021. Casting is currently underway.
