Expect Lots Of Slicing Blade Action In KNIFE

Learning about the upcoming Asian action flick Knife, I somehow get the picture in my head of that deadly duel between Donnie Yen and Wu Jing in SPL.

Knife is the latest project by LeBrocquy Fraser Productions, the team that brought us Osama, the Golden Globe Best Foreign Language Film some years ago. It features a lead character who is a "martial arts hero with an east-meets-west style; his blend of Muay Thai, street fighting and Special Forces knife techniques are in a way unique to Asia." The film also promises "some of the most extreme knife work ever seen on the screen."

I say, bring it on already!

Knife will be directed by Xie Dong, who was assistant director on many of Zhang Yimou's films. Sunny Pang, last seen in the Singapore exquisite-corpse film, Lucky 7, will play the lead, an ex-Special Forces soldier turned mercenary. Other confirmed cast include John Lone, Yasuaki Kurata and Jade Leung.

Here's the synopsis:

An outcast Special Forces soldier returns to Southeast Asia after a fifteen year absence to get his daughter away from the biggest gang in the city. With the help of his former Colonel and Guru he takes on the gang who are planning a massive money laundering deal, but other forces are at work, not to mention police who are closing in on the gang. Our hero must unleash his incredible martial arts knife wielding skills to overcome the odds and bring his daughter around to accepting his true identity, but tragedy and death are all too close in what becomes an action packed journey through the pulsing heart of this Metropolitan Asian City.

Production is scheduled to begin "soon."