Chinese director Jiang Wen crushed the Chinese box office with his 1920s set action flick, Let the Bullets Fly, and it looks like he’s hoping to repeat that success with a sequel titled Gone with the Bullets.
Let the Bullets Fly was made under the Wen and Marco Ma co-owned Buyilehu Films and, according to Ma, the film is a sorta sequel. The film will be set in the same time period of the 1920s but the plots won’t really have much in common and the location will move from a small town in the south west to a big city in East China. In fact, Ma went so far as to say they are planning to make this into a “Bullets trilogy,” making this the second of three potentially awesomely fun films.
Ma states that “it will be another action drama about contests of wits and power, that has a tense pace and is full of Jiang Wen’s playful imagination, but on a grander scale,” which means that the budget is going to be a lot higher for this round. Additionally, Gong Li is set to co-star in the film which would reunite him with Wen after 25 years and Ge You will most likely return as well. Apparently, they are also looking for a US actor to play a westerner so I’m really curious to find out who they have in mind. I can’t imagine who else they might line up for this sequel. None of this is confirmed yet but it is all highly likely.
Jiang Wen and Guo Junli are set to pen Gone with the Bullets together as they did the first and shooting is expected to start this September or October. They are planning for an October 2013 release date.
What say you, did you like the first enough that you wanted a second? Does that even matter? Or are you asking yourself, who is Jiang Wen anyway?
via Screen Daily
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