Ex-Bond girl to star in romantic thriller
Michelle Yeoh, the Asian kung fu fighting actress who starred opposite Pierce Brosnan in "Tomorrow Never Dies," will next be starring in a romantic kung fu thriller opposite Korean actor Jung Woo-Song and popular Taiwanese singer and television actress Barbie Hsu, among others.
Ex-Bond girl to star in romantic thriller
Michelle Yeoh, the Bond girl who fought alongside Pierce Brosnan in 1997's "Tomorrow Never Dies" will be starring next in a romantic kung fu thriller that will begin shooting in Shanghai on Oct. 30 with writer-director Su Chaopin and producer Terence Chang of Lion Rock Prods.
According to an article in HollywoodReporter.com, "A $12 million co-production with Beijing Galloping Horse Prods., Media Asia of Hong Kong and two publicly traded Taiwan media companies, the tentatively titled Jianyu Jianghu' can be described, Chang said, as " 'Face/Off meets 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' set in the Ming Dynasty."'"
Chang will share the producing duties with John Woo, his filmmaking partner, who also produced the 2003 action adventure comedy "Bulletproof Monk." Woo also directed the 2000 Tom Cruise action film "Mission Impossible II" and the 1997 John Travolta/Nicolas Cage action thriller "Face/Off."
Meanwhile, Hong Kong-based sales company Fortissimo, which was founded in 1991, will represent the film in the international marketplace.
The HollywoodReporter.com article then delved into the film's plot, "In the film, whose tentative title loosely translates as Rain of Swords in the Martial Arts World,' Malaysian Chinese star Yeoh plays an assassin who falls in love with the son of a man whose father was killed by her gang. Unaware that he also is a trained martial artist, their love blossoms and then tensions rise as the past comes back to haunt them.'"
Yeoh's other film credits include the 2000 Ang Lee-directed action drama "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and the 2005 romantic drama "Memoirs of a Geisha," which was directed by Rob Marshall, who also directed the 2002 Renée Zellweger/Catherine Zeta-Jones/Richard Gere Academy Award winning smash "Chicago" and has just been announced as the director for the next installment in the hit "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise entitled "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides."
