The ever growing list of remakes in development has just gotten longer with the addition of Chang Cheh's wuxia classic
One Armed Swordsman. Director Peter Chan (
The Warlords) will helm the film and he plans to create a new story with a more bloody and cruel approach.
Crienglish has the details on the cast and their role:
Hong Kong actor Donnie Yen and Japanese-Chinese actor Jing Chengwu (aka Takeshi Kaneshiro) will star in the film. Yen will play a cruel killer who has become a fugitive. But he undergoes a transformation after he is captured by Jing Chengwu, who played a similar role in Director Zhang Yimou's film "House of Flying Daggers."
The film is the first time Yen and Jing have cooperated on a movie project, and they are excited about the challenges it offers. Yen is also the film's choreographer. Jing may have to undergo fighting training before the shooting begins.
Man, doesn't Donnie ever take a break to catch his breath from his busy schedule? It just goes to show that you can't keep a good man down. Filming to set to begin in August.