“Saving General Yang” Trailer Released
Touted as one of the most anticipated films of 2013 and produced and written by father/son duo Raymond Wong (黃百鳴) and Edmond Wong (黃子桓) and directed by Ronny Yu (于仁泰), Saving General Yang <忠烈楊家將>is a period war film that boasts an impressive and good-looking male cast hailing from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China and a story line that was inspired by true events.
Saving General Yang centers around the legendary Yang clan, featuring Adam Cheng (鄭少秋) as General Yang. Ekin Cheng (鄭伊健) replaced Louis Koo (古天樂), who unfortunately had to back out due to a leg injury, as the first son. Yu Bo (於波 ) portrays the second son, Vic Chou (周渝民) as the third son, Li Chen (李晨 ) as the fourth son, Raymond Lam (林峰 ) as the fifth son, Wu Chun (吳尊 ) as the sixth son and Fu Xinbo (付辛博 ) as the seventh son.
General Yang’s seven sons must use their individual strengths and skills to engage in an epic battle against 3,000 warriors in order to save their father. Several of the sons meet their deaths as they sacrifice their own lives to save their father in the timeless tale of filial piety.
Fast-paced battle scenes are backed by carefully-crafted cinematography and choreography. In fact, the film boasts itself as “The movie with the most battle scenes on horses” due to the fact that over 60 percent of the fighting is done on horses.
To add depth to the film, Korean pop group Super Junior-M was tapped to record the theme song, “I Support You” <我挺你>, a song about brotherly love and support.
With the star-studded cast, epic battle scenes and an emotional theme song to wrap it all together, Saving General Yang should definitely be on everyone’s list of films to watch in 2013.
Watch the Trailer
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This article is written by Natalie for JayneStars.com.
Although the Yang saga is overdone, I’m looking forward to “Saving General Yang” due to the handsome cast!
yeh it looks very epic and its been a long time that ekin plays the lead role with such a strong cast.cant wait!
I this the one where all the sons die? so this is the sons’ version and later there will be a wife/daughter version?
This is the son’s version 🙂 No news whether there will be a wive’s version.
Sad then because we all know the sons died. Maybe sequel is the wive’s version.
wife version already exist,cecilia cheung plays the lead role. the name of the movie is “the legendary amazons”
I don’t want to see the wives/daughter version. It’s been done to death.
The trailer attracts me to see the movie. at first i was disappointed Louis got replaced by Ekin. But it seems that Ekin is suitable for the character. He look pretty good in here.
Still makes me wonder how Louis would look like and how he would portray the role if he was cast as the first son 🙂
louis only acted in a few martial arts movies.i remember he has played in “the legend of zhu” with ekin and cecilia cheung which i found louis was pretty cool and have a modern hairstyle lol.
Been waiting for this movie forever. That voice-over really ruins it though. Why did they give Adam Cheng an old man’s voice? – Don’t give me that crud about how old he is, his voice is still middle aged sounding and he still looks like a youngish guy with a beard. Deffo not the old man voice they matched him with.
I didn’t realize most of the fighting was on horseback though, as cool as it ends up looking, lots of the recent ancient war movies/shows have some really painfully brutal looking horse falls and it’s quite hard to watch for me. Hope they had some sort of animal welfare officer on the set to make sure nothing got too rough.
I don’t suppose there is any news on how safe the set was for the animals?
“My name is General Yang” LOLOL
Oops, “they call me General Yang”
Haha, I’ve seen this a week or two ago. Bad memory.
Wow! Action packed n interesting mann!
Mirror mirror on d wall who’s d most handsome of all 7=Ekin Cheng!
agreed
I cannot agree more!!!
def agree!
Can’t wait…want to watch this movie!!!
I think this movie will do very well at the box office because there’s so many idols, like Raymond and Ekin.
Miriamfanz,
I think Ekin Cheng is a better casting choice than Louis Koo. Ekin suits the role of a warrior more and looks good in the battle scenes.
The trailer is well-edited which showcases the carefully filmed action scenes. Hope the script is well balanced between the action and story, as the trailer somehow remindsme of “Lord of the Rings” due to the massive warriors the Yang family has to face.
Jayne,
Do you know when is the actual release date?
Raina,
The release date for “Saving General Yang” has not been announced yet. However, the trailer looks pretty complete and the editing should have been finished already.
I suspect they are waiting for an ideal release date slot to be scheduled in mainland China. My guess is likely late March or even April, given the emergence of this “Saving General Yang” trailer. The release date is possibly after Stephen Chow’s “Journey to the West” (Lunar New Year) and before Donnie Yen’s “The Monkey King,” which may be seen as somewhat competing films given they are action-packed martial arts films.
Thank you for the information.
I can’t wait though, I haven’t seen any movie version with such a strong cast. I was disappointed with Cecilia Cheung’s version. Though a couple of the TV drama versions were excellent e.g. the one with Carmen Lee, Amy Chan (Mainland series) and the old TVB classic. Good days.
For now, it is said to release on the 4th of April.
Out of all the men, Ekin’s physique definitely suits the warrior look best. Though everyone else looks really good too, and it’s fitting that everyone has their own expertise. Excited!
i dont think so jayne, altough im a ekin fan i think the role will fit louis more because he looks more powerful,more fire when he is angry.but ekin is a good second choice.^-^
4.4, the date is announced months ago.
@shu
i agree with u.
I wonder why it is taking so long to release this movie???
Probably waiting for CNY?
if shown during cny period I won’t watch, too much bloodshed, i rather go for comedy movie during cny
@HTS: Because it’ll release in 3D version as well.
Hope LF got the most screen time…lol…
I hope so too!
i was trying to spot wu, but he’s got like 1.2 secs of screentime in that trailer, if even that…..
this trailer makes me expect a genre film, which is a real pity because raymond looks very hard core awesome in some of those scenes i just watched
I guess I’ll just enjoy the gratuitous casting ensemble….
It would be really exciting if Raymond could film with a similar look for a TVB series. Sadly, there is like zero wuxia series from TVB these days. That Michelle Ye one seems more romance focused and Ray looks … more “scholarly” or noble?
Uhm 7 handsome men in Txb now, help me to list the names because I only can think of 5 at max.
omggg looks epic!! sooo exciteddd
When did Raymond Lam have a chance to film this? He is doing a lot of stuff! Such a hard worker!
Not a fan of Ekin/Raymond. Good looking casts? Not sure about that either. Prolly with watch it for the story since it’s Yang saga after all. Hope they don’t ruin it.
I’m with everyone else on the ‘can’t wait to see it’ theme but unfortunately because I live in England I won’t get to see it on the big screen *sob*. I’ll probably have to wait months for the DVD and even more months for it to have English subtitles. For those of you who can see it in the cinema, I am sooooo jealous!
i’m sicken tired of these history event being made into lord of the ring style. What is up with their clothes? It like watching some fantasy battle. Lame!
I’m gonna love this movie. Ray looks hot and the whole lineup is famous and will attract fans to theaters.
Trailer looks awesome. Like everyone else I’m also looking forward to the release. Have to support LF!
Vic is my fav!! He’s actually younger than Li Chen, LF and Wu Chun, but he plays the third son. No wonder he has to have a mustache!
Too many Yang stories already, but not as many for the guys… The ones about the daughters and widows have been done too much so I am a bit sick of those… Hopefully this movie is good.
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this movie looks good! I am excited to see Louis and Ekin together again hehe
opss i read it wrong , still like Ekin hehe
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Dam! I can’t wait to see this movie! A really hot cast! Whoohoo!
no one looks better than ekin in olden day period costumes movie/drama!