Now this is one my all time favorite Marvel Characters, right up there with Daredevil and Hawkeye. And with Ang Lee directing it it could be a great flick. I just hope it dosent disappear again.
From
www.cinematical.com/
Ang Lee's Shang-Chi movie is back
Posted Feb 27th 2006 8:01PM by Martha Fischer
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Way back in 2001, Stephen Norrington told AICN that he had agreed to direct a film based on The Hands of Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu, a Marvel Comics series from the 1970s about the son of evil mastermind Fu Manchu. According to Norrington, the movie was going to be "a real honest-to-goodness martial arts film, rather than a film that simply has martial arts in it," and would be light on wire-work. No, you didn't miss it - the movie never happened. Instead, it disappeared from the internet radar until 2004, at which point it resurfaced as The Hands of Shang-Chi, with Ang Lee attached as producer.
Listed on the IMDB with a 2005 release date, the project again languished, only to be revived this year by a couple of fairly reliable sources. Shang-Chi first reappeared in January on stanleeweb, where it was revealed that Stan Lee had agreed to executive produce the film for DreamWorks, with Yuen Woo-ping directing from a Bruce McKenna screenplay. Then, most recently, Ang Lee told a Spanish newspaper that he was, in fact, still involved in producing the film, and confirmed that Yuen - whose fight choreography credits include both Kill Bills and all of the Matrix movies - is the (current) director.
There is still no information on offer, however, about a cast or start date, and the movie may well just disappear again for another few years. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dadiceguy at 01:16am on 01/03/2006