
We've been tracking the progress of Xiong Xin Xin's upcoming martial arts film Coweb for a good long time now, drawn in both by the fact that it is Xiong's directorial debut after a long career as a performer and also because it marks the feature debut of star Jiang Luxia, a female finalist on Jackie Chan's martial arts reality show The Disciple. I caught a good chunk of this in Berlin and let me tell you: Jiang is the real thing, this girl can fight. And now you can see exactly that for yourself since Mark Pollard over at Kung Fu Cinema has gone and dug up a brand new fight rule from the film. Check it out along with the trailer below the break!
Newcomer 蒋露霞 Jiang Luxia, a finalist of The Disciple reality TV show, plays the lead role as Guangdong wushu coach Nie Yi Yi who gets implicated by a kidnap case in Hong Kong. It’s up to her to battle waves after waves of fighters to rescue her employer and his wife who are kidnapped. Little did she know that her fights are being captured on video and broadcast live via a website which serves as an illegal online gambling den…
Fight Reel
Trailer

Awwww man. It's starting to feel like the 80s again.
love that poster
I don't doubt about the talents involved here but, i can't say i'm sold yet.
Trailer kind of sells me. But the fight reel fails.
i dont expect much from the plot but the fighting and stunt work looks like a top notch Jackie Chan movie. i'm first in line when it comes out :-)
Shame it takes a damned reality show contest to find the next martial arts star.
Maybe James Cameron should start broadcasting studio-lit auditions for Avatar to the public... it would make more than the movie.