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-- Future Cops --

Future Cops is currently being filmed on in Huairou, Beiijng. According to Wong Jing, the movie timeline have been changed, it will take place totally in the future. A number of characters in the film are part-man, part-machine with superhuman abilities, such as the villain Tang Yi Fei, whose cybernetics accessories include scorpion tail, wings of bat, arms of praying mantis, and she also possesses speed of leopard, all of which will be handled by special effects.

Action director Ching Siu Tung, who's trying to be innovative in the action, says that the film's budget is over 100m yuan, and a significant portion of the budget will be spent on creating roughly 900 visual effects shots in post-production.

Andy Lau and his wife Fan Bing Bing are cops living in 2130, and Xu Jiao's their daughter. Barbie Hsu plays Andy Lau's romantic interest when he travels to 2080 and part of his memory is erased. Fan Siu Wong plays a terrorist leader who sends his men to kidnap scientist Ma Jing Wu, whom Andy Lau and Fan Bing Bing are assigned to protect, at a Tang Dynasty exhibition.

Photos: 1, 2 (Sina) | Short clip: Sohu

Perhaps, feeling upstaged by Hollywood in kungfu genre in the recent years, Chinese directors are responding with their answers to X-Men and Transformers. One is Future Cop, directed by Wong Jing, while another is Robot, directed by Jeffrey Lau.

-- Future Cops --

Director Wong Jing is teaming up with martial arts choreographer Ching Siu Tung on a loose remake of Future Cops, produced by Tsai Sung Lin. Future Cops (tentative) is budgeted at 150m yuan and Andy Lau and Barbie Hsu are playing leads. Andy Lau agrees to joining only after the script went through 19 revisions, and also picks Barbie Hsu, who showed excellent performance in Connected, as his co-star. 

Andy Lau was interviewed by Barbie Hsu sometime back, and thought that they would have great chemistry together. It's like a dream come true for Barbie Hsu to work with her idol. Andy Lau reprises his role as a cop from 2085 who accidentally returns to 2010, and teams up with a female cop Barbie Hsu to bust a criminal organisation.

Ching Siu Tung has been working on choreographing the film since the closing ceremony of Beijing Olympics, coming up with exotic moves for Andy Lau and Barbie Hsu.

Filming begins next month and is expected to be completed by end of the year, after which post-production, including special effects, will be carried out. They're planning to go to exotic locales like Dubai to do location filming. Future Cops is slated for year end release in 2009.   Sina

-- Ip Man --

Recently, Fan Siu Wong's getting seen more frequently on the silver screen. He makes a very brief appearance in Benny Chan's Connected, a remake of Hollywood's Cellular, as kidnapper Liu Ye's henchman. The film is about a guy (Louis Koo) receiving a distress call for help from a stranger ("Big S" Barbie Hsu Hsi Yuan) about her being kidnapped.

Fan Siu Wong also has a part in Butterfly Lovers remake, about the reincarnated ill-fated lovers in a wuxia world, again not being able to be together.

 However, it's with Wilson Yip's Ip Man that Fan Siu Wong not only gets a more significant role but also has a chance to flex his wondrous martial arts muscle, as choreographed by Sammo Hung.

In Ip Man, Fan Siu Wong plays a ruthless gang boss Jin Shan Zhao who's out to dominate the martial arts world, except he's thwarted by Yip Man (Donnie Yen). However, he's not going to take it lying down and will do anything he can do get back at latter.
 

More Ip Man photos on Fan Siu Wong Facebook.