Chow Yun Fat In THE LAST TYCOON Teaser

The upside to upcoming Chinese production The Last Tycoon? The 1920's gangster picture features an all star cast of Chow Yun Fat, Huang Xiaoming, Francis Ng, Sammo Hung and Ni Ni. Andy Lau being on board as a producer doesn't hurt, either.

The down side? Writer-director Wong Jing, best known for cranking out fairly low grade pulp. The film, written and directed by Wong and produced by Andrew Lau, recreates the true misadventures of Shanghai mobster Du Yuesheng (Chow), who had close ties with KMT leader Chiang Kai Shek.

Now, Wong has been known to go high brow and turn out some quality work from time to time and hopefully this will be one of those cases. You can get your first taste of some footage with the teaser below.