Justin Lin Boards Chinese Remake of Shaolin Temple
Justin Lin, the director soon to jump onto the next movie in the Jason Bourne franchise for August next year, has signed a deal with Perfect Storm Entertainment to direct a Mandarin-language remake of 1982′s Jet Li introductory vehicle Shaolin Temple.
The movie would be budgeted at over $100 million dollars and is poised to matter as it might be timed to be the biggest hit when China becomes the world’s largest film-going market. That’s if Lin makes this his post-Bourne project.
“We will commence only when we feel this is ready,” says Perfect Storm Entertainment CEO Troy Craig Poon. The 1982 Shaolin Temple was a Hong Kong martial arts movie directed by Chang Hsin Yen. The original story was based on Shaolin folklore and set during the transition period between the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty. When the Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, the...
The movie would be budgeted at over $100 million dollars and is poised to matter as it might be timed to be the biggest hit when China becomes the world’s largest film-going market. That’s if Lin makes this his post-Bourne project.
“We will commence only when we feel this is ready,” says Perfect Storm Entertainment CEO Troy Craig Poon. The 1982 Shaolin Temple was a Hong Kong martial arts movie directed by Chang Hsin Yen. The original story was based on Shaolin folklore and set during the transition period between the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty. When the Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, the...
- 1/17/2014
- by Da7e
- LRMonline.com
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