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Sep
03
2008

Clubfoot makes a movie! Xiong Xin Xin directs first his MA film ‘Coweb’!

Posted by Andrew Mack at 3:17pm.

Posted in Film News , Martial Arts, Action, Asia.

There is one thing that the world can never have enough of and that is martial arts movies with female leads. Thank the maker that there is another project on the horizon as we await the arrival of Coweb. What is even more shocking is that Coweb marks the directorial debut of Xiong Xin Xin, our beloved Clubfoot from the Once Upon A Time in China [and in America] movies. Holy crap, it took this long for him to get his own project? He was everywhere in the 90s and just sort of slipped out of the picture in the new millennium. Production of his debut began back in May, has already wrapped up the shoot and in is post. Expect to hear and see more about this film near the end of the year.

I digress, what is Coweb about? 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…

Be sure to check out the trailer. From the trailer it looks like Coweb could be a showcase featuring of all the great scenes in other martial arts films. I like what I see from Jiang. I hope that Xiong Xin Xin had the foresight to put his own flavor or style into a scene though. Penalty for rehashing if he didn’t.

Thanks to reader EdBailey for heads up.

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Reader Comments

  1. agent23 09/03/2008 @ 4:34pm

    I would love to see this chick duke it out with Jeeja from “Chocolate”.

  2. The Amazing Psycho Per 09/03/2008 @ 4:39pm

    Cool… Looks way better then Chocolate.  Nice tribute to the New one armed swordsman final. Lots of wires though.

  3. Novastar 09/03/2008 @ 5:05pm

    This movie will miss one thing and that’s a story.

  4. MavisFan 09/03/2008 @ 5:34pm

    Looks good.  Hope there is a trailer without the music.

  5. bro_mole 09/03/2008 @ 5:38pm

    I could not agree more about there never being enough martial arts films with female leads!

  6. pochiW 09/03/2008 @ 6:41pm

    all the trimmings without the fat! she looks great and lovable sam lee seems to do more than punching clock here.

  7. ChevalierAguila 09/03/2008 @ 9:51pm

    Looks good, hopefully better than Chocolate, this girl looks more agile and skilled too.

  8. Rhythm-X 09/04/2008 @ 2:04pm

    I thought it seemed extremely slow on the action side of things and this was looking pretty weak… then the music stopped half a minute before the trailer, and I realized it was the video playing at the wrong speed compared to the sound.  At regular speed that was probably pretty cool.

    Flash video sucks.

  9. Mike 09/04/2008 @ 6:47pm

    @Rhythm-X:
    I was about to complain about how all the fight scenes reminded me of Brave, but I think your right about the video.

  10. rubberlegs 09/04/2008 @ 8:31pm

    Looks pretty good but to bad there isn’t a better trailer. Kane Kosugi is also in this so he better have a fight scene.

  11. Rhythm-X 09/04/2008 @ 8:47pm

    Did anyone else experience the video and audio running at different speeds?  Could be a Flash 10 related problem.

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