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-- Seven Swords of Mt Tian TV Series --

Both Zhao Wen Zhuo and Ray Lui just arrived on the set of Filming Unit A in Xinjiang on August 20. The production was filming a scene where Chu Zhao Nan battles the Manchu soldiers when this reporter reached Wuerhe Wind City (aka City of Ghosts), a desert region with constant strong winds stirring up the sands, and infrequent sandstorms which disrupt the production.

Being an aerial combat with Chu Zhao Nan being suspended by wires, the action was done by a double. Later, Zhao Wen Zhuo, who is playing Chu Zhao Nan, got on the set personally to complete the ground-based actions of the same scene.

-- Seven Swords of Mt Tian--

Tsui Hark is planning to make a documentary on Chinese wushu. Jackie Chan has agreed to host the documentary. With the help from Chinese Wushu Society, Tsui Hark intends to spend two years travelling across various regions in China visiting wushu legends' hometowns and interviewing their descendants.

In the meantime, he's busy with Seven Swords of Mt Tian 《七剑下天山》. The TV version was originally planned to be 30 episodes, however, as Tsui Hark felt that in order to go into the specifics of each of the Seven Swordmasters of the First and Second Generations, it's necessary to extend the teleplay to 60 episodes, or 74 as it's the case now. He felt that it would be too short with 30 episodes, the pace would be too rushed, with little room to describe each swordmaster's tales, their dreams and pursuits, as well as their swords.

Soon, Korea and Japan investors were attracted to the material and the franchise soon snowballed into various projects, such as comics and online game. Then, someone mooted the idea of doing the movie as well. Thus, Tsui Hark began formulating the film structure. However, because of the scope and length of the novel, it's certainly no mean task.

Eventually, they took out the relevant elements and came up with the movie script. Seven Swords of Mt Tian will focus on the nature of each of the seven rare swords, their relationships with their owners, their owners' feelings for the swords, how they learn, through the swords, the way of humanity, the growth of each swordmaster, from the beginning when they start using using their swords.  Nanfang Daily