Reconstruction
What do you do when your Hollywood career crumbles away beneath you? If you’re Steven Seagal you go to Hong Kong and start producing martial arts films there ...
We originally posted about the Seagal produced Dragon Squad months ago when the kindly Jiangtou showed me a fantastic early trailer - which I wasn’t allowed to share - and some early one sheets - which I was. Well, the official trailer is up now and it’s completely, 100% different from the one I saw earlier. I like the first one better, but there’s still plenty of good stuff in this ...
The film is about a group of Interpol agents - led by Sammo Hung - tracking a group of international terrorists in Hong Kong. Simon Yam, Michael Biehn, Derek Chou, Vanness Wu, Shawn Yu, Maggie Q, and Huh Joon Ho also star. The script is from Bey Logan.
Personally I’m still buzzed from Yam and Hung’s performances in SPL, so seeing them together again is a major plus in my book and this looks to be a decently strong entry in the HK crime film canon. With Logan’s involvement - he just signed on as an Asian advisor for the Weinstein Company - I’m surprised the Weinstein’s haven’t announced the acquisition yet ... I’m sure it’ll be just a matter of time.
Dragon Squad Website
Dragon Squad Trailer (Downloadable Windows Media)
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Reader Comments
BtoFu 09/30/2005 @ 4:01am
This cast line up is quite desireable in a creepy kind of way. Bey Logan though eep Gen X Cops springs to mind! Maggie Q in there niiice, wonder if she’ll get more work stateside after MI3. Also Seagal - a friend was saying he moved east and won’t be making any more movies in the states since he named and shamed some Mob hoods but this friend can talk a power of crap..anyone know if this is true?
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