With the recent box-office success of the Wilson Yip helmed movies Ip Man and Ip Man 2, Yen has become one of China’s hottest actors and is now being offered roles outside of the action genre. Donnie Yen: Bringing Ip Man to Life - April 15, 2013ĭONNIE YEN HAS A DEDICATED FOLLOWING IN ASIA FOR HIS IMPRESSIVE MARTIAL ARTS SKILLS, AND HAS ACHIEVED INTERNATIONAL CULT STATUS FOR ROLES IN ACTION MOVIES SUCH AS LEGEND OF THE FIST: THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN, PAINTED SKIN, FLASH POINT, SEVEN SWORDS, SPL, SHANGHAI KNIGHTS, HERO AND BLADE II.Mark Hobbs: Unleashing Wing Chun in the Cage - March 28, 2016.Kleber Battaglia: Awaken the Wholeness Within - November 18, 2016.We'll keep you updated on more Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: The Green Destiny news as it becomes available. What do you think, Screen Rant readers? Are you looking forward to the sequel? Now can we please work on that title? Obviously they want to maintain some kind of familiarity with the original so that casual audiences won't be confused or ambivalent, but what's so wrong with calling the film Iron Knight, Silver Vase? Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was an eyebrow-raising title back in the day, but word of mouth soon made it a household name. With the lead casting of Yen and Yeoh and appearances from Zhang, at least the cast of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: The Green Destiny is looking pretty solid. Michelle Yeoh will reprise her role as the tough yet suffering warrior Yu Shu Lien from the original film.Īs for the content of the sequel, since Couching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was based on the fourth book in Chinese author Wang Dulu's "Crane Iron Pentalogy," it's only natural that this project draws its story from the fifth and final book, "Iron Knight, Silver Vase." Dulu's fifth novel follows the adventures of Jen Yu (Ziyi Zhang's character in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Iron Knight, the son of Lo/Dark Cloud (Chen Chang's character), who is switched at birth with a baby girl known as Silver Vase.Įntertainment Weekly reported late last year that Zhang's role would most likely be portrayed through flashback scenes that explain what happened to her character after the ambiguous ending to Lee's movie. Woo-ping Yuen ( True Legend) is directing the project with a script from John Fusco, whose resume includes scripts for Young Guns, Hidalgo and The Forbidden Kingdom. Yen's casting comes as no surprise considering that he appeared on a panel for the project at the Cannes Film Festival last May. Yen was just recently seen in China in the 3D epic Monkey King, which set a record at the Chinese box office by making $41 million in ticket sales in a single day. The deal also marks Yen's move from Paradigm over to his new agency, CAA.
But with talented actors joining the sequel's cast, and filming starting next month, the new installment could show some promise.ĭeadline is reporting that China's top action star Donnie Yen, who played martial arts legend Yip Man in Wilson Yip's Ip Man and Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster, has closed a deal to star in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2: The Green Destiny.
When it was announced that The Weinstein Company was making a sequel, many fans thought that it was simply a franchise-making cash grab.
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