We sharpens Flying Guillotines
By Patrick Frater
Fri, 11 February 2011, 17:30 PM (HKT)
Hong Kong and Chinese production group We Pictures Ltd 我們製作有限公司 has given the green light to The Guillotines 血滴子, a historic martial arts action film and its second to be directed by Teddy CHEN 陳德森 after blockbuster Bodyguards and Assassins 十月圍城 (2009).
The $15 million budget Guillotines will shoot from April with YUEN Bun 元彬 supplying the martial arts choreography. Delivery is scheduled for late 2011 or early 2012 and international sales are handled through sister company We Distribution Ltd.
Guillotines stars Ethan RUAN 阮經天, the young Taiwanese who is drawing heat since his best actor awards with last year's hit Monga 艋舺 (2010), and mainland Chinese actor HUANG Xiaoming 黃曉明.
The story follows a group of street ruffians who have been trained as a team of imperial-sanctioned assassins. Then, when they are ambushed by another group the hunters become the hunted. We also describes the band of assassins as "history's first SWAT team".
We principal Peter CHAN 陳可辛 takes credit as producer. Chan is currently in post-production on Wu Xia 武俠, an historic detective story with Donnie YEN 甄子丹 and KANESHIRO Takeshi 金城武 that is designed to deliver martial arts differently from any previous film in the genre.
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