Sadly it’s been a couple of years since helmer Tsui Hark (Seven Swords, The Eye 3) has directed a solo project that has caused much excitement around these parts. Now that may all be about to change with the announcement that he will direct Andy Lau in the period martial arts suspense thriller "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame." With a $13 million (a very respectable amount for Hk production) budget, the film is set to bring to life an imagined case solved by a real Tang Dynasty detective. When the mysterious deaths of a series of loyal subjects threaten to delay the 690 A.D. inauguration of Empress Wu, China's only female monarch, she calls the infamous Detective Dee (Lau) back from an exile into which she cast him eight years earlier. "They had such an interesting relationship of hatred, love and passion," said Tsui, who is...
- 1/5/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
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