-- Kingdom to Heaven --
While spending years doing research on Journey to the West, Tsui Hark came across stories concerning Tang dynasty's super sleuth Di Ren Jie aka Judge Dee, sparking ideas on the film. The film's Chinese title will be 《通天帝国》 Kingdom to Heaven, and is set to begin production in May 2009. Huayi Brothers is producing.
Apparently, the initial draft of the script focuses on one major case, and it'll be an entirely original story. This time around, the astute and intelligent detective would be turned into a martial arts exponent, and the movie is never short of fighting scenes. Andy Lau is likely to play the protagonist Di Ren Jie.
To celebrate the silver anniversary of Film Workshop next year, Tsui Hark intends to hold a series of commemorative exhibitions, and there's also the intention to do a couple of remakes of classics from Film Workshop. To start off, Kwak Jae Young will be directing Shanghai Blues remake, with script written by Tsui Hark. The Beijing News