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Must Watch: Great Trailer for Yuen Woo-Ping's True Legend

by Alex Billington
October 19, 2009
Source: Quiet Earth

From China comes True Legend (aka Su Qi-Er), the latest martial arts epic from Yuen Woo-Ping, the fight choreographer on all three Matrix movies and Kill Bill. The film stars Michelle Yeoh (who you'll recognize from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Man Cheuk Chiu as the lead. IMDb lists David Carradine as part of the cast as well as Jay Chou, who is playing Kato in The Green Hornet, as the "God of Martial Arts." It's a tale, kind of like Gladiator, about a wealthy man who loses everything and becomes a true legend, a "King of Beggars." The fights in this look awesome and it reminds me a lot of Jet Li's Fearless. Check it out!

Watch the first trailer for Yuen Woo-Ping's True Legend:

Su Qi-Er (Man Cheuk Chiu) is a wealthy man living during the Qing Dynasty who loses his fortune and reputation as a result of a conspiracy against him. After being forced out onto the streets, Su dedicates his life to martial arts and reemerges as a patriotic hero known as the "King of Beggars." Sounds pretty good?

True Legend is directed by Chinese filmmaker and legendary martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping, who has directed numerous films including Iron Monkey, Fist of the Red Dragon, and The Red Wolf. The screenplay was written by To Chi-Long, of Blood Brothers, Jet Li's Fearless, and Murderer previously. This does not have a US release date yet, although it was produced by Focus Features, so stay tuned for updates!

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From around the web:

nem

Fuck.. yeah..
http://moviecrematorium.com Rob

Ahhh it looks soo good!
casshern

it looked good until Jay Chou appeared with that ridiculous costume. seems like a fantasy flick.
Sabes

Kind of a weird trailer, but looks cool. <3 Michelle Yeoh.
DoomCanoe

I hope there isn't to much back story and it ends up as a 2 hour mixed martial arts brawl either way I'm seeing it
Cineprog

Look's very intresting hope there is some great fight scence just like the matrix films.
Collin

That guy looks like Justin Long with a beard. LMAO.
Robbie

Does anyone talk in this movie?
Jessie

wow.. looks cool.. looking forward to Jay Chou's performance ^^
dave13

hmm, looks pretty well done. but yeah, #4, it is a bit of a weird trailer. perhaps they did it htat way in an attempt for it to be viewed well in multiple nations (language barrier)?
James

Why can't they make Mortal Kombat this cool.
Janny

sort of reminded me of mortal kombat....
Hallaball

I want to see it now!!!
http://www.twitter.com/dt4storms Dusty

SWWEEEEEEEETTTT.. I am game
lego

what 3 said, damn jay. but we'll just have to wait and see
that guy

does anyone else think he looks like Justin Long?
kenji

drunkens!! and definitely not a HK kung fu flick without the crazy costumes
TVN

Looks fun.
Joe C.

The back story is a classic chinese story. Stephen Chow did a comedy based on this story as well. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100963/ It has been a while Woo-Ping directed a movie. It should be really good if you're into martial arts (not action) film
ChrisUK

2 words: AWESOME AWESOME ! can't wait! Had some fantastic 'period' martial arts movies recently, with Ong Bak 2, The Warlords and IP Man, not to mention the fighting in Red Cliffe.
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2408/blackbabyjesus.gif Crapola

Looks pretty daft, I like the fight scenes, but did that guy have armour fused to his skin near the end? Visually those movies rule, but often the story seems almost like an inconvenience for the film makers.
http://www.mkingscott.co.uk Mike Kingscott

Yup, I'll go for that Most odd about the chap with the fused silver armour though, but yeah, I'm game
low

I wish the dragonball movie was this great!