Corey Yuen Teaming Up to Bring Martial Arts Movies to HBO Asia and China Movie Channel

Veteran filmmaker Corey Yuen will serve as executive producer for two Chinese-language martial arts movies to be broadcast on HBO Asia and China Movie Channel, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Master of the Drunken Fist: Beggar So and Master of the Shadowless Kick: Wong Kei Yung are the first two movies in an anthology series of action movies. They represent the first Chinese-language productions by HBO Asia featuring Chinese talent. Currently in production and aiming for broadcast at the end of this year, the movies will showcase "gritty combat sequences executed by a cast of Chinese actors professionally trained in mixed martial arts, kung fu and muay thai."

Yuen's screen career dates back to the early 1970s and he became a director in the 1980s, with titles like Yes, Madam!, Fong Sai Yuk, Enter the Eagles, and The Transporter to his credit. Guo Jian Yong is directing the movies and is also serving as action choreographer; he worked with Yuen on The Transporter and DOA: Dead or Alive.

HBO Asia, based in Singapore, previously collaborated with filmmaker Joko Anwar to produce the series Halfworlds, which was recently renewed for a second season and is currently in production in Thailand.