Director Andrew Lau Teams Up with Martin Scorsese for “Revenge of the Green Dragons”
The upcoming crime action film, Revenge of the Green Dragons <青龍復仇>, which is co-directed by Hong Kong director Andrew Lau (劉偉強) and Chinese-American filmmaker Andrew Loo (盧弘軒), recently revealed its trailer. Revenge of the Green Dragons, which is Lau’s second English-language film, boasts Martin Scorsese as its executive producer and will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Revenge of the Green Dragons is based on a true story of two immigrant brothers and their struggle for survival in a 1980s New York City Chinatown gang called “the Green Dragons.” The screenplay, which is jointly written by Andrew Loo and Michael Di Jiacomo, follows the two brothers as they rise to the top ranks of the gang and embark on their quest for the elusive American dream.
Korean-American actor Justin Chon and Taiwanese-American comedian Kevin Wu, better known by his YouTube moniker KevJumba, star as the two brothers, Sonny and Steven, respectively. Revenge of the Green Dragons will also feature American actor Ray Liotta and Asian Latino dancer/actor Harry Shum, Jr (岑勇康).
Famous both in China and overseas for his Infernal Affairs <無間道> trilogy, Andrew Lau shared that he was extremely excited to be working with Scorsese, whom he called his idol. “Working with him has always been a dream of mine,” said Lau. In turn, Scorsese praised Lau as well, saying that Infernal Affairs gave him the inspiration to film his 2006 crime drama The Departed.
In its newly released trailer, Revenge of the Green Dragons gives off the air of a mix of Hong Kong action films and New York crime-suspense flicks. Starting September 11, it will be available exclusively on DirecTV. The movie is expected to open in North American theaters in October.
“Revenge of the Green Dragons” Trailer
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Source: Sina.com
This article is written by Joanna for JayneStars.com.
KEVJUMBA?! The guy from Glee? It looks ok. I wonder if theres gonna be any Cantonese spoken in the movie…but goddamn can we get a movie thats not about triads?
When did KevJumba act in Glee? I watched every episode of the show, and he wasn’t the cast at all. Are you talking about Harry Shum, Jr?
I think they meant Kevjumba AND the guy from Glee.
yes i was. read the article.
Oh, okay. I realize my mistake, but ‘the guy’ from Glee has a name. Lol…
“but goddamn can we get a movie thats not about triads?”
yeah if you produce a movie not about triads
that would be nice
Wow, KevJumba? Wow.
wish they added lucy liu to the cast
Looking forward to it.
wow this sounds like glorifying the criminal like Better Luck Tomorrow – not very Infernal Affairs at all.
So that’s what Kevjumba and Justin Chon has been up to. I think KevJumba gave up on youtube.
mm hai ma – a fisherman or coolie in China or a CRIMINAL in America?
what about the shoeshiner in Hong Kong? Or the restaurant worker?
This is crazy.
We personally witnessed De Laurentiis’ film crew soiling Mott Street below Canal for shooting China Girl but North of Canal was clean. WE SAW THEM do it and then the movie came out and showed filthy Chinatown and then pristine Little Italy. Unfortunately in the last two decades, that is exactly the difference – possibly on purpose.
say that again?
bringing in garbage and then hosing it down
To Kei Fung strongly said that he is anti-triad. I hope his associates are the same way.
Oh Jesus. Are they copying the Japanese and acting as apologists for triad???
That never works and it will offend normal New Yorkers SO MUCH. It’s like a kid getting caught redhanded and then lying or denying or excusing himself to the teacher in front of the rest of the class.
It doesn’t work for the Japanese and the Germans know it because the Germans are familiar with Christian tradition.
Ohhh my god. Evil Chinese are SO stupid. and because they were kept at a distance by the English, they THINK they have white people and the Western world all figured out.
The Western World – probably thinks Jamie Gao deserved what he got because his drug buddies called in a missing persons report using one of their molls and then it was discovered that he bullied and beat fellow Chinese foreign students and that he was going to a drug deal.
Good Chinese don’t need life experience to foresee outrage but evil Chinese ALWAYS think they don’t stink, that no one notices.
http://sfappeal.com/2014/08/keith-jackson-asks-judge-to-order-prosecutors-to-turn-over-evidence-of-alleged-financial-misconduct-by-undercover-fbi-agent/
How come no Hongkong actors?
Andy? Sean? Louis? I know they dont speak good english but they are charismatic, a cameo would help the movie.
Why use a Korean American actor when there are so many HK actors who could do the job? There would be an uproar among Koreans if a Chinese actor portrayed a Korean character.
Because Korean American actor can speak English, westerners think all asians look alike and they look bigger and more stamina. Also a hollywood film can only accommodate ONE asian actor; used to be 1 chinese or Japanese or Korean, never and.
because a Korean JOINED the Chinatown gangs and got arrested and was in prison. I remember he was interviewed for Koream magazine about 15-20 years ago.
Li, who once described to an FBI agent ways to kill people, was allegedly the enforcer for Chow’s Chinatown Ghee Kung Tong — which the FBI has called a criminal gang — and had an ongoing friendship with Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Michael Kim, according to new filings in the federal case, as first reported in the San Francisco Appeal.
oh gawd! Aren’t you already sick of them appearing in almost all of the HK movies?
Why exactly does there need to be an English language film about Chinese triads? Not to mention, it’s literally impossible to have an authentic triad film without Cantonese and the Chinese culture.
Seriously, there are two audiences for triad films. Westerners who think it’s “exotic” and “interesting” and have misunderstood views and believe all the stereotypes. And the Hong Kongers who are not going to waste money on watching a film supposedly about them, in English, that couldn’t even bother to cast a Chinese person.
The Departed wasn’t a bad film but it definitely wasn’t based off “inspiration”… it was a remake.
but infernal affairs was definitely INSPIRED by an earlier less entertaining American film
it might have been state of grace but there definitely was a very similar story earlier from America
“less entertaining American film”
Are you refering to The Departed? If yes, then it’s the other way around. TD is the adaption or remake (depending who you asked lol) of Infernal Affairs. IA came first as a triology starting 2002. Scorses’s TD aired in 2006. He even admitted it’s “inspired” by IA.
“Inspired” my butt, it’s a clear copy in my opinion; down to the “surprise/wow” factors. Lol.
You need to retract your inference that IA was inspired by
“an earlier less entertaining american film”
Martin Scorsese’s The Departed was a remake of IA.
When TD won an Oscar, the announcer mistakenly said it was a remake of a Japanese film.
o am not talking about departed
What no Jim Sturgess?? How will the possibly capture the essence of the Asian male??