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Universe rides high on "Storm"



HONG KONG – Universe Entertainment wheeled out the stars at Hong Kong FilMart for their big-budget fantasy actioner "The Storm Riders II", which features the return of Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng as Cloud and Wind in the comic-book adaptation.

Lensing on the $12 million sequel to 1998's smash hit "The Storm Riders" starts next month and horror helmers, twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang ("The Eye"), are spending big on post-production to get a "300" kind of feel to the pic.

The film is slated for release by the end of 2009 in Hong Kong, China and Asia and pic appears to being down a storm in Asia, making multiple sales at FilMart.
"The Storm Riders II" will the first Hong Kong movie that is filmed exclusively on blue screen and custom-made sets," said executive producer Daneil Lam. "Post production will be particularly important and worth putting the money into. Our goal is to produce a very visually stunning movie."

Pic also features Simon Yam as Lord Godless, "Dragon Tiger Gate's" Nicholas Tse as Heart, Charlene Choi, who is one half of the Twins pop duo, as Second Dream and a rising star from Chinese Chengtian Entertainment's stable, Tiffany T, who will play Chu Chu.

Golden Harvest, which produced the original "The Storm Riders," has distribution rights for Hong Kong, while Golden Harvest and Chengtian will distribute the pic on Universe's behalf in mainland China. Universe will distribute in the rest of the world.

Pic has been sold to Mono Film in Thailand, Scorpio in Singapore, P.T. Teguh Bakti Mandiri in Indonesia and there has been strong bidding from Malaysia.

"The Storm Riders II" is an adaptation of comic master Ma Wing Shing's 1990s best-selling "Fung Wan". The original pic, helmed by Andrew Lau of "Infernal Affairs" fame, did boffo B.O. in Hong Kong, relling in HK$41 million a decade ago.

The film makers stressed that getting the right overall look for the movie was of key importance.

CGI and special effects are central to the pic and will be done by Fat Face Productions, which did "Recycle" and "The Warlords." Post production is expected to take more than a year.

Art director and costume designer Yee Chung Man is planning to collaborate with mainland Chinese fashion designers to give a brand new look to the pic.

BoRinZzZ

looks interesting

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xyrho69

seems good..been waiting for that since years back LOL

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My5tiCaL

cool!.. i loved the 1st one too.. haha

zero_88

Finally...they are back....I thought the series have die down....

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inle

they will doin it like wat s in the movie, 300....
shld b a lot of computer stuff involved....
but the effects shld b better than part one....

i like the story in the comic though...
classic....

sky1234

They are the perfect duo. The series is not very good.

More characters:

http://twitchfilm.net/site/entry-images/category/C123/

Huaikong

waited since 1998.this show got wu ming or not?duan lang was chop from part 1 oso.sian....

laksa

going to wait for this movie....Feng Yun 2

cheers

inle

ya... where s WuMing....
he s a main char in Feng Yun too....

zero_88

No duan lang very sianz....

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YNWA

i have been waiting for sooooooo long liao!!!......



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Huaikong

yaloh.hope they made a movie of his final showdown with feng n yun.....

Voodoo Vince

Can't wait to watch this.

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inle

i think the storyline in the movie tis time round s about JUE WU SHEN....
strange they left out WuMing....

Huaikong

last time got rumour andy lau will act wuming i so happy.now abit........

calebytes

Andy Lau was supposed to play Wu Ming the last time we heard. It's a pity that he will not be part of Storm Riders II. Who's playing Wu Ming? Anyone has any ideas?

I find it strange that the Pang Brothers are directing. They have yet to make a period swordman's flick to date. Apart from 'The Eye', their recent efforts are quite disappointing. Heard that part of their Hollywood movie - 'The Messengers' was asked by the studio to reshoot some of the scene. Hope they don't ruin 'Storm Riders II'. (Hope it doesn't turn out to be "Recycle", a mambo jumbo of just silly special effects.....)