You'll have to forgive my sarcastic tone. It isn't that I wouldn't want to see a team up of Donnie Yen and Tony Jaa on the big screen but the last time we were finally given a match up of established martial arts actors on screen the end result was The Forbidden Kingdom. It wasn't what the martial arts movie fans wanted. This time could be different. No Hollywood. Ringo Lam has been out of the action film scene for a while but he hasn't directed a Stuart Little film. And since Donnie Yen no longer needs to prove himself as a legitimate talent it would be in everyone's best interest to have some of that experience rub off on Tony Jaa who has had a bit of a topsy turvy year. It's only talk for now but it doesn't cost anything to dream.
Recently, Raymond Wong has stepped down as the chairman of Mandarin Films to set up his own film studio which is teaming up with Mainland investors to produce a modern actioner at around HK$150m in mid 2010. The film will be directed by Ringo Lam. Donnie Yen and Tony Jaa are being invited to star in the film and they would have a series of fights.
Raymond Wong hopes to unite the two international screen giants despite the high fee of US$3m (HK$23.4m) commanded by Tony Jaa, "I'll talk about the new firm at a later date. It'd be great to have to the two appear in the same film, but I'll only talk about it when things are finalized."
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