Edko to reboot Wong Fei-hung franchise
By Kevin Ma
Wed, 07 August 2013, 20:45 PM (HKT)
Bill KONG 江志強's Edko Films Ltd 安樂影片有限公司 is rebooting the long-running Wong Fei-hung franchise with Rise of the Legend 黃飛鴻. News of the project first appeared today on the China government's latest list of approved film projects.
Christine TO 杜緻朗, who co-wrote martial arts films Fearless 霍元甲 (2006) and True Legend 蘇乞兒 (2009), is listed as the scriptwriter. The short official synopsis implies that the story will be about a younger incarnation of the character.
Wong Fei-hung (or Huang Feihong) was a real-life martial artist and physician who lived in Guangdong Province in the late Qing Dynasty. He is better known in Chinese culture as a folk hero who has been immortalised in over one hundred films.
The character has been portrayed on screen by KWAN Tak-hing 關德興, Jackie CHAN 成龍 and both Jet LI 李連杰 (pictured) and Vincent ZHAO 趙文卓 in TSUI Hark 徐克's Once Upon a Time in China 黃飛鴻 (1991) series.
The film is listed as a China-Hong Kong co-production between BDI Films Inc 北京數字印象文化傳播有限公司, Edko Films and Irresistible Delta Ltd 萬誘引力丁有限公司.
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