Behold this paparazzi shot of Tang Wei and Takeshi Kaneshiro
together.
[Thanks Tony!] Be still my heart. It appears they may be co-stars in Peter Chan's (
The Warlords) next project which is titled, simply,
Wuxia.
Tang, Donnie Yen (in sunglasses) and Takeshi.
... isn't that like calling a film
Horror or
Period Epic or
Musical or
Action or some such? Though supposedly
Wuxia is a remake of
The One Armed Swordsman (or maybe a reboot of that 70s franchise in general?)
Anywei... since
that sexist ban on the
Lust Caution hussy* lifted, she's been busy. (As well she should be given how tremendous that performance was, truly one of the most confident and complex movie acting debuts ever.)
Tang Wei has had one new film released in Hong Kong (
Crossing Hennessy). Her new film
Late Autumn will be at TIFF (pictured left) and now, there's this. No word yet on her connection to Takeshi in the movie but she'll be married to Yen onscreen.
Peter Chan had apparently been hush hush about the female leads of
Wuxia -- even denying Tang Wei was involved at all -- but this photo may say otherwise. Last I heard
was an offer going out to Gong Li.
This report, though, is semi-confusing about which movie is actually shooting, calling this movie
Wu Xia or
Jincheng Wu and then later implying that
The Swordsmen is a different and second film project for 2010. Though it could be a case of the writing just not being totally clear else why do the earlier reports list the same cast members for the remake of the One Armed Swordsman? Here's
a couple more pics of Tang & Takeshi at a nearby restaurant.
*sarcasm. be not offendedWei Tang