"Wu Dang" Chinese Theatrical Poster
The trailer is online for Wu Dang, a new fantasy-based Chinese martial arts film from the director of Twins Effect II and featuring action choreography by the legendary Corey Yuen. The film stars Vincent Zhao, who is probably most famous at the moment for dropping out of Donnie Yen’s Special Identity, alongside Siu-Wong Fan (Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky) and Yang Mi.
Based on the trailer, it looks like this movie is leaving reality far behind, with characters floating through the air, walking on water, and generally defying gravity like it ain’t no thing.
Chinese Films has more details, with Wu Dang slated for a July 17th, 2012 release date in China.
Update: Some very brightly colored promotional posters over at Chinese Films. Actress Yang Mi has actually arrived in France to help promote the film at Cannes since this is her first martial arts role.
While promoting Wu Dang in Beijing yesterday, actor Vincent Zhao spoke out about the controversy surrounding his departure from the Donnie Yen aciton film Special Identity. Says Zhao: “I’ve been in this industry for over 20 years. I was taught to treat people with respect. But he [Yen] destroyed everything I knew about him.”
A final, and generally more impressive, trailer is now online. This trailer puts more emphasis on the film’s slick production values and Corey Yuen’s action choreography. Now this looks like something we’d actually want to see!
BREAKING NEWS: Guess that final trailer wasn’t so final after all. Wu Dang opens in China in just two days. Check out the latest trailer.
Real pity Vincent dropped out of Special Identity. This doesn’t make his career choices look any better.
I have to agree with you! I got mucho respect for Cory Yuen and Vincent Zhao, not to mention Ricki-Oh himself Siu-Fong Wan, but the trailer for this movie did nothing for me. This looks like the kind of movie that should have come out over 10 years ago…now you see actors flying on wires and walking on water and it seems passe.
If I see another fantasy Wuxia I will puke hard. I just want to see a new old school kung fu movie, like the old Shaw Brothers movies.
eye agree.
Yeah, I’m getting reallyyy tired of the whole ‘we walk on water like it’s no big deal’/gracefully float through the air/spin and twirl/wuxia on wires kind of thing. To me, Donnie Yen pushed the whole Hong Kong action genre forward with “Flash Point” – but nobody stepped up to meet his challenge.
I just want more movies like that. Modern day Hong Kong, bustling streets, crisp photography, great hand to hand fighting, and bloody gun battles. It’s a shame that such a genre staple has become so rare!
Here he goes again… Ever since the incident, Vincent was always saying that he had forgotten about it and wouldn’t talk about it ever again but yet he does and claims that he will forget about it. Real professional, Vincent…
I hate him so much. we know for a fact that he wanted a lot of money and had a lot of demands, lux hotel, everything paid for his family and even his nanny. and then his wife went online to post naked photos of shu qi just because she defended donnie yen.
and now he is still bashing yen, using his name to promote his shitty movie.
I hope he rots in hell.