“Bleeding Steel” Teaser Poster
Legendary martial arts icon Jackie Chan (The Foreigner) will return for a new Police Story movie, with the preliminary title, Police Story 2022 (aka Police Story 6). For the upcoming film, Jackie is teaming up with his Bleeding Steel director, Leo Zhang (Chrysanthemum to the Beast).
Police Story remains arguably the most popular series of films that Jackie has ever done, with the 1985 original solidifying Jackie’s status as an international action icon. Jackie would return to the series intermittently over the years – with Police Story 2, Police Story 3: Supercop, Police Story 4: First Strike – adding bigger and more dangerous stunts with most additional entry.
There’s currently no word if Police Story 2022 will take place in the “universe” of the first four films, or if it will be another standalone, by title-only rendition of the series, as seen in New Police Story and Police Story 2013: Lockdown.
A promotional teaser for has been released, thanks to one of our sources, AFS. We’ll keep you updated on this project as we learn more, but for now, here’s a look at what Jackie Chan and Leo Zhang did together in 2017:
Are there any directors out there now who would actually help elevate a new Police Story to something deserving of the title? I thought Ding Sheng was a good choice after Little Big Soldier, but Lockdown was a slog. The director of Bleeding Steel doesn’t seem like a good choice either. Even Stanley Tong seems to have lost it, though I do still hope Vanguard is fun.
Obviously Jackie will only bring on Chinese directors for this franchise, and I’m really struggling to come up with anyone up to the task. Maybe Teddy Chen?
As Paul said in his Double World review: “Teddy Chen is a solid commercial director, more consistent than Benny Chan and safer than Herman Yau, I’ve always looked at him as a kind of Hong Kong version of Steven Soderbergh”
So yeah, I’m the 3rd person who thinks Teddy Chen would be a safe bet. Along with Stanley Tong, I think Jackie sorta lost it with directing as well (I don’t remember to care what was going on in Operation Condor 3, so that’s my basis). If Benny Chan can get into his Gen-X Cops/Big Bullet/Who Am I?-mode, he be the prime choice cut. But all those films were over 20 years ago. The edge…. is gone.
Set it in the original police story films timeline and bring may back and Mars if he’s still acting
and Maggie Cheung and Bill Tung.
“and Maggie Cheung and Bill Tung.”
Bill Tung might be a challenge.
They brought back Bruce Lee for Game of Death, so sky’s the limit!
Cardboard cutout Bill Tung, where do I sign!?
My dream project is a Jackie Chan movie featuring all the old gang – Mars, Sammo, Yuen Biao, Tai Bo, Chin Ka-lok, Dick Wei, Ken Lo etc…
I think the closest we’ll ever get to that is 2016’s ‘The Bodyguard’. We got Sammo, Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Yuen Bo, and faces from the glory days of HK cinema like Karl Maka, Dean Shek, and of course Tsui Hark. Jackie Chan is too busy riding his Mainland popularity, and that’s fine, I’d rather he not drag the likes of Sammo and Biao into stuff like ‘Bleeding Steel’ and ‘Kung Fu Yoga’.
Yeah good point. Casting guys like Sammo and Yuen Biao in garbage movies like that would not be doing them any favours. The Bodyguard was a huge piece of nostalgia. Just too bad most of those guys had small cameos.
Teddy chan…. Hmmm….. Nope….
From chinese directors my bet would be John Woo,
and that would be a miracle, soo since this wont happen, i bet on Benny Chan, his New Police Story was good enough for me, yes that was pretty far from now, but i dont think Benny lost his touch for this kind of films, im really looking forward for his upcoming film with Donnie Yen, Raging Fire, teaser for this movie got me exited!))) As for this guy, it may be not the worst choice ever, but not good either, bleeding steel was cgi fest, with few good moments though…
Maybe if script will be good, this director will do fine job, hard to say, but BS was overload with cgi…
If we’re going with a director who’s new to the franchise, I’d want Dante Lam to direct. Also very curious if Kirk Wong, who’s been spending years and years now just trying to get various projects off the ground, has lost any of his skill.
Or Alan Yuen (the Alan Yuen of Firestorm, not of The Rookies).
I feel like Dante Lam would work in too military stuff and explode shit for no reason. 🙂 How about those other guys, Fletcher Poon/Alan Mak?
Dante Lam has only been blowing stuff up (ok – excessively blowing stuff up) for the last 4 years, but if it was the Dante Lam that directed the likes of ‘Beast Cops’ & ‘Beast Stalker’, I’d definitely be all in.
Anyway, surprised no one has mentioned the most obvious choice – Yue Song. 😛
Screw it, just get Martin Campbell to director (it can be JC’s first English-language Police Story!)
You know what? I’d buy that for a dollar. Campbell’s movies have a Benny Chan-esque quality to them. The man who directed, and nailed, 2 Bond films would do alright helming a Police Story movie, I think.
I don’t think Dante Lam would show interest in directing a martial arts feature and a film that he does not have full creative control. As for Alan Yuen, I think he would be an interesting choice since I enjoyed both Firestorm and kind off The Rookies. The Rookies flopped hard so Alan Yuen don’t seem to be having many more directing opportunities. He did do the script for Rob B Hood.
I was so hopeful with Ding Sheng when he directed the excellent Little Big Soldier but Police Story 2013 disappointed big time. JC stated in his biography ‘Never Growing Up’ that he selected Ding because he saw great potential in him for he can act, direct, edit, paint etc. He may see the same potential in Leo Zhang despite the poor direction given to Bleeding Steel.
I actually more worried that its a mainland series now and its pandering to the Chinese market. China does not allow certain ways police officers are portrayed so it will be rather standard affair.
I wish this could be interesting.. My hope is that something of purity is made, that avoids a lot of FX and augmentation.. I almost want something that predates Police Story in style, like Drunken Master or Snake In Eagles Shadow … Something akin to more playful kungfu. Because a lot of this modern action, which is heavier on impact, is the logical conclusion of Police Story’s (and 80s HK) filmmaking. What Im wanting back is the beauty and purity, which I think has been lost. Look at it this way, if you wanted to watch a dance orientated film, would it bug you if they kept using editing, CGI augmentation, ramping etc? I think it would.. Well, classical HK martial arts pictures arent far off dance films in their form and hence why I think the meddling with the image bugs me. So a back to basics would be wonderful, you know, fighting over a tea-cup or something.
“My hope is that something of purity is made, that avoids a lot of FX and augmentation..” Good luck with that. The guy who directed is made Bleeding Steel. His DNA is composed of CGI.