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Watch: Teaser Trailer for Tsui Hark's 'Flying Swords of Dragon Gate'
by Alex Billington
August 19, 2011
Source: The Playlist
Time for some quick, morning wuxia action. MCN via The Playlist has found an official trailer, which I would call more of a teaser trailer, for Tsui Hark's new martial arts epic The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, starring Jet Li as well as Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Li Yuchun, Kwai Lun-mei, Louis Fan and Mavis Fan. The film is a remake of King Hu's Dragon Gate Inn (1966) and Raymond Lee's New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) and was shot in 3D. There are some very interesting shots in this, I thought it was worth featuring today. Check out that final scene with the huge sand tornadoes. Not exactly sure what's going on, but it looks cool!
Watch the first teaser trailer for Tsui Hark's Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, via YouTube:
A Ming dynasty general played by Jet Li finds himself at odds with a power-hungry eunuch, and eventually they battle at the titular Dragon Gate Inn, a remote outpost in the desert. Although this is based on the story of 1992's New Dragon Gate Inn, Tsui Hark has said that this film is less remake of an old classic, and more of a re-imagining. Flying Swords of Dragon Gate is written and directed by Vietnamese filmmaker Tsui Hark, of numerous films previously, including A Better Tomorrow III, The Swordsman, Once Upon a Time in China, The Master, Seven Swords, Missing and Detective Dee recently. This was just announced for an IMAX 3D release in China and Hong Kong this December, but there's no info on any US release plans yet.
12 Comments
1
WTF did I just watch?
Chazzy on Aug 19, 2011
2
Kung Fu Wizard of Oz
Danimal on Aug 19, 2011
3
lol
Anon on Aug 19, 2011
4
O_o
Cocobricoliko on Aug 19, 2011
5
Lame
Richie G on Aug 19, 2011
6
Alex, this "trailer" might make more sense if the Chinese symbols were translated...
TheDRguy on Aug 19, 2011
7
Just because this "trailer" dosn't have english, dosn't mean it's not a trailer.
LW on Aug 19, 2011
8
Yea but even in engrish it would still not make since...
SHANEDAV on Aug 19, 2011
9
'Not exactly sure what's going on, but it looks cool!'couldn't have said it better myself xD
Mergatroid89 on Aug 20, 2011
10
Chow Mein Western?
Guest on Aug 22, 2011
11
This trailer makes me think that the people involved in this film are on drugs...
Anonymous on Aug 22, 2011
12
IN CHINESE 3D! Seriously though, I wonder what 3d implementation they use.
JT on Aug 26, 2011
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