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Old 06-21-12, 10:23 PM
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Keanu Reeves has obtained funding for "Man Of Tai Chi", the bilingual martial arts feature which marks his directorial debut for Universal Pictures, Wanda Media, Village Roadshow and China Film Group reports Reuters.

Tiger Chen plays a young martial artist whose fighting skills brings him "to a realm of vast opportunities and painful choices." Reeves will play the villain and says the aim is to do a "good, solid kung fu movie".

Filmed in both Mandarin and English, the project contains eighteen fights which tally up to around forty minutes of combat. Shooting begins in Beijing in China with additional filming in Hong Kong and Macau.
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Keanu doing Kung Fu again? I'm interested.
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Sounds very interesting. I hope this turns out to be good.

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He still knows Kung-fu
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Hopefully he's a better director than he is an actor. A lot better.
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Hopefully he's a better director than he is an actor. A lot better.
Maybe he's the Ben Affleck of contemporary martial-arts cinema.

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I admire this project. Good luck, Reeves. It seems like it's a passion project that has potential..and I'm game for that. I really admire what heart this can have in terms of how it's done.
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I give him credit for taking that rig and shooting long sequences.
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Good to see he's putting his massive paydays from THE MATRIX films to good use.
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Woah!

Aside from Keanu's flat line readings, this looks like it could be cool.

Nice to see Karen Mok and Simon Yam. Hope they have decent sized roles.

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Yeah, Keanu's line delivery is really odd. It was almost as if he was trying to sound dubbed. Anyhoo, looks like fun.
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He sounds like Chairman Kaga from Iron Chef. I still want to see this.
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I'm game.
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He sounds like Chairman Kaga from Iron Chef. I still want to see this.
I'll see this is he dresses like Chairman Kaga.
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Disappointed that there's pretty heavy use of wires in the fight scenes.
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Disappointed that there's pretty heavy use of wires in the fight scenes.
I'd much rather watch very well performed wire fu than the cg crap that Tsui Hark did in Flying Swords of Dragon Gate. If it is anything like the wire work in Ip Man 1 or 2, I am totally on board.
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Looks cool. Like seeing Karen Mok in the trailer. Have always liked her.
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