Monkey Peaches reports that Director Wong Kar-Wai ("Mood for Love") revealed in Cannes that he plans to make a biopic about Bruce Lee in which actor Leung Chiu-Wai would play Lee's master, Ye Wen. This confirms word in a recent interview with China's CCTV in which Leung Chiu-Wai also said their next project would be a martial arts film.
The biopic will center around the story of Lee and his master during the 1950's and 1960's, before Lee was an super star. Someone from Wong's Block 2 Pictures told Shanghai Youth Daily that the biopic was only one of many projects they were working on. "Soft Coffee", a low budget film starring Chang Chen and Dong Jie will be Wong's next project, but he will only produce it. Director Tsui Hark and the municipal government of Lee's hometown Shunde in the Guangdong Province, are also pursuing their own Bruce Lee biopics.
The site also reports that according to Hong Kong media, Jackie Chan started working on a new project, financed by his JCE Movies Ltd., with director Stanley Tong in Hong Kong a couple of days ago. Jackie Chan told Oriental Daily, that the title for the film could be "Legend" or "Myth", but he was not ready to accept either one of them. The project was formerly known as "Time Breaker", derived from "Titanium Rain", which dried up a year ago. Shooting will be wrapped up in a few days and re-start in Shanghai later next month. Jackie Chan is still looking for the right actress to play the character who repeatedly shows up in the dreams of Jackie Chan's character, a time-traveler.
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