"Marco Polo" Chinese Theatrical Poster
Rob Cohen (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story) will be directing a 3D fantasy/action film titled Marco Polo (no relation to the current Netflix series), a co-production between Paramount and China Film Group. The film is scheduled to hit theaters in 2016.
There have also been additional reports that Cohen is considering his Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor leading man Jet Li (Flying Swords of the Dragon Gate) for a role.
Countless projects about the Venetian adventurer have been made in the past, but the obvious one that comes to our mind is 1975’s Marco Polo (aka Four Assassins), a Chang Cheh-directed Shaw Brothers film starring Richard Harrison, Alexander Fu Sheng, Chi Kuan Chun, Gordon Liu, Leung Kar Yan and Shih Szu.
Updates: THR reports that Hayden Christensen (Star Wars Episode I-III) will be starring in Marco Polo.
