Jackie Chan’s ‘A Legend,’ ‘Paddington in Peru’ Among Bona Film’s China Release Slate Highlights – Shanghai
22.06.2024 - 01:07
/ variety.com
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Bona Film Group, one of China’s leading movie studios, is poised to release Jackie Chan-starring “A Legend” on July 12. The film leads off the firm’s summer distribution slate. “A Legend” is pitched as a $50 million sequel to the 2005 action romance “The Myth” that involved both Chan and director Stanley Tong.
Chan plays an archaeologist who discovers a powerful jade artifact that sends him and his assistant back to a tumultuous period in the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 24). The role of the assistant is played by Chinese pop star Lay Zhang (aka Zhang Yixing), a veteran of 2023 hit “No More Bets” and Tong and Chan’s 2017 joint effort “Kung Fu Yoga.” The new movie is the tenth time that Chan and Tong have worked together, following other titles that include “Police Story 3,” “Supercop” and “Vanguard.” At a press event during the Shanghai International Film Festival this week producers said that a highlight of the film is its use of AI technology to recreate a 27-year-old version of Chan.
Other elements of the film, including massive horse-back armies and thousands of soldiers in desert locations, were shot on location in Xinjiang without the use of CGI. The event also revealed Bona as China marketing and distribution partner for StudioCanal and Heyday Films’ family adventure movie “Paddington in Peru.” In parts of Europe, the film is due a November release. In others.
it is due to arrive in cinemas in January 2025. “A Dream of Red Mansions,” Bona’s reinterpretation of a Chinese classic “The Dream of the Red Chamber” is also set for a July release. Directed by Hu Mei from an adapted screenplay by He Yanjiang, the film started production in 2017, but was interrupted by COVID.
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