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Crouching Tiger 2 to premire on Netflix
Posted on 9/29/14 at 10:49 pm
Posted on 9/29/14 at 10:49 pm
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While Hollywood studios and exhibitors endlessly spar over shortening the window between theatrical and home viewing on feature films, you just knew that someone was going to take a bona fide movie, bypass theaters and go right to home viewing. Not surprisingly, it’s Netflix, already a disruptive force with series including House Of Cards and Orange Is The New Black. The pay service has just contracted with The Weinstein Company’s Harvey Weinstein to release its first major feature film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend. Sort of a sequel to the Ang Lee-directed 2000 martial arts epic that won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, the film will premiere exclusively on Netflix, and it will simultaneously have a berth in IMAX theaters. The release is August 28, 2015.
Yuen Wo-Ping is directing a script by John Fusco, and Michelle Yeoh and Donnie Yen star. Lee is not involved in this, and the connective tissue is the source material based on the Crane-Iron Pentalogy by Wang Du Lu. Crouching Tiger was the fourth book in the series, and this film is based on the fifth installment, Silver Vase, Iron Knight. Both are from Wu Sia, the centuries-old genre of Chinese fiction that this series is part of. There is plenty of high-wire sword fighting along with the themes of lost love, young love and redemption. Yeoh reprises her role as Yu Shu-Lien, and Donnie Yen plays Silent Wolf. The film is shooting in New Zealand. Yuen is a legendary filmmaker and fight choreographer, and the production team is composed of all seasoned feature players. Peter Berg and Sarah Aubrey are producing with Weinstein and The Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum is exec producing with Ralph Winter, Anthony Wong and Bey Logan.
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Posted on 9/29/14 at 10:50 pm to Dr RC
in; will watch
Posted on 9/29/14 at 10:51 pm to Dr RC
Donnie Yen is the fricking man so I'll be catching this for sure.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 10:53 pm to Dr RC
I'm a fan and was not thrilled to hear about this potential sequel falling on its face in the cinemas, but I can really behind this approach.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 10:54 pm to Dr RC
Does this one really need a sequel?
Posted on 9/29/14 at 10:54 pm to Tactical1
now that I think about it, I bet Netflix is also who decided to fund Clerks 3.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 10:56 pm to UL-SabanRival
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Does this one really need a sequel?
it was a 5 part book series
CTHD was part 4
Posted on 9/29/14 at 11:13 pm to Dr RC
Didn't know that, but what else could they possibly do?
Posted on 9/29/14 at 11:20 pm to UL-SabanRival
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Didn't know that, but what else could they possibly do?
Maybe read the books and find out.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 11:23 pm to BigAppleTiger
Entice me with a brief synopsis.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 11:28 pm to Dr RC
Will watch. Would prefer a prequel though.
Posted on 9/29/14 at 11:29 pm to UL-SabanRival
Havent' read that chapter. I only read chapter 4. Meant to go back and continue but started Lone Wolf and Cub instead. If you like the genre and there is talent involved (Donnie, Michelle, Weinstein, Berg) let's just be optomistic, plenty of time to be disappointed upon viewing. The people they have involved have me feeling pretty good about it.
Posted on 9/30/14 at 6:21 am to Dr RC
I loved CTHD and Michelle Yeoh.
So in.
So in.
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