Trailers for WUSHU : A New Jackie Chan-Produced, Sammo Hung-Starring Film

Here are a couple of trailers for a new film called “Wushu” due to be released in China this month. It’s produced by Jackie Chan and stars Sammo Hung among a young cast of unknown, but highly skilled real life martial artists.

Any fans of Wushu - particularly the competitive, modern variety, will recognise some routines from these trailers. But as a sport that focuses on the athlete’s visual technique, this might appeal to alot of people to watch.

From TwitchFilm.net:

Jackie Chan is on board as a producer for the picture, Sammo Hung starring in a key role, and both are no doubt perfectly aware that they are no longer young and that, with a couple of key exceptions, there simply is no younger generation ready to step in to the sorts of martial arts roles that the pair of them built their legendary careers on.  And so they are making Wushu, a film that celebrates actual martial arts while using their very famous names to leverage some attention for a young generation of very skilled fighters.

Shot in an actual martial arts school in mainland China using authentic fighters the film is a drama about a skilled fighter switching disciplines in hopes of catching the attention of a girl.  There’s no real flash here, no over the top brutality, instead the film is designed to showcase actual training techniques and actual fighting skills.  And no doubt about it, these guys are good.

TwitchFilm.net

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