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Two Trailers for Jackie Chan-Produced, Sammo Hung-Starring WUSHU
Posted by Todd Brown at 2:42pm.
Posted in Trailer Alerts , Martial Arts, Drama, Action, Asia.
Though nobody is coming right out and saying so the upcoming martial arts drama Wushu has all the hallmarks of being a legacy project for a pair of legendary names. Jackie Chan is on board as a producer for the picture, Sammo Hung starring in a key role, and both are no doubt perfectly aware that they are no longer young and that, with a couple of key exceptions, there simply is no younger generation ready to step in to the sorts of martial arts roles that the pair of them built their legendary careers on. And so they are making Wushu, a film that celebrates actual martial arts while using their very famous names to leverage some attention for a young generation of very skilled fighters.
Shot in an actual martial arts school in mainland China using authentic fighters the film is a drama about a skilled fighter switching disciplines in hopes of catching the attention of a girl. There’s no real flash here, no over the top brutality, instead the film is designed to showcase actual training techniques and actual fighting skills. And no doubt about it, these guys are good. Our friends at Quiet Earth pointed the way to a pair of new trailers for the picture yesterday but those versions were posted up on YouTube and, thus, look pretty much like crap. We’ve got much higher quality versions of both trailers embedded in the Twitch Player below the break.
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PhoneyB 04/01/2008 @ 7:50pm
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Tory 04/02/2008 @ 7:47am
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