Two action-packed martial arts movies set at the end of the Qing dynasty will premiere on prime time in Asia this Christmas.
“Master of the Drunken Fist: Beggar So” will screen on Dec 25 while “Master of the Shadowless Kick: Wong Kei-Ying” will debut on Dec 26, said a statement by HBO Asia today.
The two movies will be shown on HBO and Red Bb HBO in Asia. You can also catch them on HBO Go and HBO On Demand in Asia, as well as on CCTV6 in China at a later date.
The movies will boast a cast of Chinese actors professionally trained in mixed martial arts, gongfu and muay thai.
The executive producer of the films is renowned Hong Kong action director, Corey Yuen. The director is Guo Jian-yong, who had choreographed big-action sequences for Red Cliff and Transporter I, II and III.
Playing the lead roles will be Cao Jun in “Master of the Drunken Fist: Beggar So” and Sun Hao-ran in “Master of the Shadowless Kick: Wong Kei-Ying”.
The screenplays were written by a team of writers from China, while award-winning Singaporean screenwriter, Koh Teng Liang, also contributed to the screenplay of “Master of the Shadowless Kick: Wong Kei-Ying”.
Shot in Hengdian studios in China’s Zhejiang province, the movies will be dubbed in English with local language subtitles when shown in Asia on HBO. Both movies will also debut at the same time on Red By HBO in its original Mandarin language with English subtitles. Both will air in Mandarin in China.
chenj@sph.com.sg
